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As GDA prepares to embark on its largest-ever construction project by relocating Moody House (see feature
story), it is interesting to note that the Academy has a long history of moving buildings.
The structure that is today called Perkins Dormitory has the distinction of being the most-moved building on
campus. Originally constructed in 1887 - on what is now the quad - as The Perkins Gymnasium, it was named for
Headmaster John W. Perkins (1882-94). It contained a basketball court, gym apparatus and a handball court. As the circa
1920 photo at right shows, the quad then also contained a tennis court. The Mansion House can be seen at the right of
Perkins Gymnasium, while the view at far right is completely unobstructed.
The second photograph shows Perkins
in its second incarnation, as Perkins
Dormitory, beside the Little Red Schoolhouse
and Moody House. In 1956, the structure was
moved to its present location (across Middle
Road from Alumni Gymnasium, as shown in
the bottom photo) in order to make way for
the Morris P. Frost Building. At far right in the
below photo is the former Stone Garage, which
was converted to the Kaiser Visual Arts Center
in 1985.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FALL 1995
FEATURES
Commencement '95
Ashley B. Russell of Hampton Falls, NH, Edward
Guzman of Los Angeles and Sung Jin An of Newburyport
received GDA's highest awards at the Academy's 232nd
commencement exercises. A wealth of excellent speakers
motivated the graduates to use their skills and talents wisely.
Project Update:
Moody House Moves
to New Home;
Donors Offer $6.5 million
The Academy's largest-ever building project took a giant leap forward during the
summer as Moody House moved from its original Elm Street location and GDA received
gifts totaling $6.5 million. A project update and photographic essay on Moody's progress.
On the Cover
Caroline Kelleher '99 and Toby
Strasenburgh '98 enjoy the 1994-
95 edition of The Milestone, the
GDA student yearbook, in the
Perry Room. Beyond them is the
Cobb Room, a place that has been
an important locus of GDA activ-
ity since it was built in 1941.
(Photograph by David Oxton)
Archon Profile
V-E Plus 50:
The Only Witness...
A witness to the signing of the German surrender
that ended World War II, Ted Bergmann '37 makes a cele-
brated return to the European War Room 50 years later as a
guest of a grateful France.
Reunion '95
More than 280 Governor Dummer graduates and
their families from 26 states and two foreign coun-
tries returned to their alma mater for a memory-filled
Reunion '95 weekend. A pictorial review of the fun.
Education: The Arch
by Aimee Walsh Schade '84
Alumna Aimee Walsh Schade offers a very personal por-
trait of her trials and triumphs as both a student and an educator.
Through it all, she discovers the value of her GDA experience and
some unforeseen impediments to learning elsewhere.
DEPARTMENTS
Class Notes 29
Headmaster's Message 3
Letters 2
Milestones 27
On Campus 4
The Archon is printed on recycled paper
Letters
In Memoriam
August 9, 1995
Dear Peter,
Thanks ever so much for the extraordi-
nary hospitality which you and the GDA
family extended to Bill's many friends and
family. The setting for the service was
ideal, the logistics were professionally han-
dled, the refreshments were elegant and
your impersonation of Bill was perfect. The
entire gathering thought it was Bill saying,
"Peter...." I have received so many positive
comments about the service and the role
the school played in it. It all made for a
very moving and uplifting celebration of
Bill's life and all he did for so many people
and causes. And it certainly demonstrated
the importance of Governor Dummer
Academy in his life.
Thanks again, and my personal condo-
lences to you and GDA on your and its
profound loss. You've experienced more
than your fair share in recent years.
Sincerely,
Ralph Ardiff '58
Danvers, MA
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Library Kudos
May 1, 1995
I am delighted to see that the Academy
is finally getting a library worthy of an aca-
demic institution with any self-respect at
all. While I understand that the Annual
Fund is used more for tuition, salaries, etc.
and I respect that individual contributions
are not generally directed to one thing or
another within it, I would be glad if my
contributions (a drop in the bucket though
they may be) could be used solely for
library acquisitions.
Joshua D. Mackay-Smith '87
White Post, VA
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Reunion Gratitude
June 20, 1995
Dear Peter,
Just a short note to thank you and your
associates, especially Mike and Karen, for a
superb Reunion weekend. Even the gods
were on our side with the perfect weather.
Both Calvine and I were very impressed
with the student panel on Saturday, as well
as with the others who helped out during
our stay. The campus is beautiful, and I
finally did find Perkins Dorm. It sure is dif-
ferent, and for the better, than when I was
there, in the late forties. Keep up the good
work!
Calvine and I would love to see you
again this coming fall, if you are planning a
trip to the Chicago area. Let us know if you
are.
Again, many thanks to everyone for a
wonderful weekend. See you in 2000, if not
sooner.
Charles Clymer Bowen '50
Lake Forest, IL
Giving Something Back
July 14, 1995
Dear Peter,
I am glad I can send a little something
back to GDA. It gave me a great deal, and I
look back on my days there as the happiest
years of my life.
One night, after lights, my roommate
and I were talking about things and we
both decided we would be happy to spend
the rest of our lives at the Academy.
Sincerely,
William C Bottger '28
Roanoke, VA
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Parting Shot
August 24, 1995
To the GDA community from 1988-1995:
As some of you already know, I decided
to leave GDA last spring in order to go to
graduate school. As I was packing to leave,
I came across three envelopes filled with
notes from Brantwood. Remember "The
Gift" that Mrs. Bragdon made each of us
write? Yes, I saved them! After reading
these notes, I realized how much I'm going
to miss GDA and all of the great people I
have met over the last eight years. I will
never forget the three Brantwood Weekends
that I shared with so many of you — espe-
cially the one when we got lost for two and
a half hours. By the way, it was really Luke
Franco's fault, even though I took the blame
(only kidding, Luke)!
To the faculty, staff, alumni/ae and pre-
sent students: I want to thank you for all of
the special memories.
Take care,
Kelly Eaton
Centerville, MA
Editor's Note
Welcome to the new, improved
Archon. As you probably have
noticed, this issue, the first of the
1995-96 academic year, looks a little
different from its predecessors.
First, and perhaps most evident, is
the new, four-color cover - a
marked change from the two-color
covers you're used to seeing on The
Archon. This improvement, made to
expand and enhance the maga-
zine's readership and coffee-table
longevity, was effected with sur-
prisingly little additional expense
through some creative planning on
the part of our designer and
printer. For the third time in the
last five years, we also have
updated the page designs, some of
which has been largely revamped
in response to readers' suggestions.
This issue also carries two new ele-
ments, housed on the inside front
and back covers: the Then & Now
feature at the front and The GDA
Store merchandise listing at the
back. We hope you enjoy the Then
& Now retrospective views of the
evolving GDA campus, especially
as we look forward to entering the
most ambitious construction project
in the Academy's history. We also
hope that collecting the GDA mer-
chandise into one, easy-to-find list
will simplify your shopping and
provide you with a few gift-giving
ideas.
As always, we are eager to
receive your input and suggestions.
Feel free to write to us with your
reactions to The Archon' s content
and appearance, with your ideas
for feature stories and alumni/ae
profiles and with comments about
the Academy in general. We look
forward to hearing from you.
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CORRECTION
On page 13 of the spring 1995 edi-
tion of The Archon, the 1940 Spring
Track captain was misidentified.
The photograph caption should
have identified the captain as Alfred
Hutchinson '40.
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Published since 1884
Publisher
Peter W. Bragdon
Editor
David L. Bergmann '70
Assistant Editor
G. Matthew Pike
Photographer
David Oxton
Director of Development
Karen E. McGinley
Associate Director of Development
and Director of Alumni/ae-Parent Relations
Michael A. Moonves
Director of Annual Giving
Betsy Winder
Archon Advisory Board
Bennett H. Beach '67
John H. Costello, Jr. P'89
Henry B. Eaton '70
John P. English '28
S. Joseph Hoffman P'83
W. Newton Lamson II '58
John S. Mercer '64 P'95
Christopher M. Pope '65
Abigail M. Woodbury '79
Trustees of Governor Dummer Academy
Dodge D. Morgan '50 P'92, President
Stephen G. Kasnet '62, P'95, Vice President
Jeffrey L. Gordon '69, Treasurer
William L. Alfond '67
Elaine F. D'Orio P'88'95
Putnam P. Flint '37, GP'99
Shirley S. French P'76
Michael E. Hoover '71
Mary F Mack P'87 '91 '93
Bruce M. Male P'90 '95
George E. McGregor, Jr. '51
Daniel M. Morgan '67, P'97
Richard B. Osgood '53, P'85 '88
Carrie W. Penner '88
Linda A. Pescosolido
Haskell Rhett '54
George S. Scharfe P'95
John M. Timken, Jr. '69
Josiah H. Welch '47, P'80 '83
Donald H. Werner
Alumni Trustees
Brian H. Noyes '76
William F O'Leary '73
Alumni/ae Council
Arthur H. Veasey, III '68, President
Karen A. Gronberg '83, Vice President
John S. Mercer '64, P'95, Past President
Peter M. Sherin '59, Past President
Thomas R. Bell '73
Carolyn Lyons Borwick '77
Catherine Burgess '91
Peter T Butler '62
Richard A. Cousins '45
Henry B. Eaton '70
John P. English '28
Ralph F Johnson, Jr. '64
Rebecca B. Lapham '83
Joseph E. MacLeod '56
Reynolds E. Moulton '56
Howard J. Navins '31
Richard H. Pew, Jr. '54
Deborah Pope Adams '74
Peter F Richardson '75
Marc K. Tucker '68
Pamela K. Welch '80
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and Spring) by Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield, Massa-
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from alumni/ae, parents and friends of the Academy, and are
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HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE
I.
. n July, Moody House was lifted off
its foundation and moved to its new home
between Evans Cottage and Nannie B.
Phillips Dormitory The process was slow
and painstaking, and it occurred to me as I
watched it that it was a perfect metaphor for
the larger process it begins - the largest and
most ambitious construction project in the
Academy's 232-year history.
The process of erecting buildings, in
and of itself, does not consume a great deal of
time in relative terms; erecting the proper
buildings that thoughtfully integrate the
future with the past is far more difficult and
time-consuming. The act of moving Moody
represents a culmination
of many years of effort
and advocacy by
numerous individuals
and committees. Its
most recent champions
have included a com-
mittee, chaired by
Academic Dean Brian
Lenane, that was char-
tered in 1993. That com-
mittee included
Librarian Mary Leary
and Boston Athenaeum
Librarian Rodney
Armstrong - possibly
the premier expert in
library design.
The Academy's
need for a new library,
which grew slowly dur-
ing the 40 years since
the Frost Library was constructed, was the
committee's point of entry into the process.
Committee members discovered that the
Academy's decision to become coeducational
in 1971 and the concurrent expansion of the
student body to 350 members played impor-
tant roles in making the Frost Library- like
the other GDA libraries before it-obsolete.
Our return to a mastery curriculum, with its
emphasis on original research, also compelled
the committee's advocacy of a new facility.
(The success of the mastery curriculum and
its on-campus progenitor, Science 2000, simi-
larly precipitated the administration's deci-
sion to build a new combined mathematics-
science center— the second half of the current
building project.)
Among the committee's surprising dis-
coveries was the fact that recent develop-
ments in technology have increased, rather
than decreased, the need for books in acad-
eme. Thus, a modern library must have both
a traditional reservoir of books and the mod-
ern, electronic means of information-
gathering.
On December 10, 1994, after receiving
the committee's report, the Governor
Dummer Academy Board of Trustees voted
unanimously to build both a library and a
new mathematics-science center by
September, 1998. A competition among sev-
eral excellent architectural firms resulted in
the selection of Perry Dean Rogers & Partners
to design both buildings in cooperation with
the faculty /administration committee and the
Board's Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Having completed the planning
process, we now look forward to the construc-
tion of the Academy's new facilities, which
have captured the imaginations of several
major benefactors. At the time of the Board's
decision to proceed with the buildings, Robert
F Schumann, whose family provided the
funds for the current Schumann Science
Center, made a gift of $525,000 toward a new
science facility. This has been followed by an
extraordinary surge in capital fund-raising.
Carl A. Pescosolido, the father of late Board
President Carl A. "Skip"
Pescosolido, Jr. '55, has
created a $2 million
charitable trust-the
largest donation from an
individual in the
Academy's history-for
the new library, which
will bear his name. This
gift follows another $2
million commitment
from anonymous parent
donors, a $1 million
commitment from David
Harris '36, $600,000 from
current Board members
and several other contri-
butions totaling $6.5 mil-
lion to date.
The cost of the
building and perma-
nently endowing these
new facilities is estimated at $12 million, and
Governor Dummer Academy must trust in
the continued enthusiasm and support of its
alumni/ae, parents and friends to provide the
remaining funding. In a clear demonstration
of the importance of these buildings to the
Academy's future, the Board of Trustees took
the highly unusual step of agreeing to finance
any portion of the costs not covered by dona-
tions. While Governor Dummer Academy has
maintained a balanced debt-free budget for
more than 20 years, the Trustees recognized
that the cost of not erecting these buildings
immediately would be far greater than build-
ing them.
For now, as I look at that grass-covered
space left vacant by Moody's relocation, I see
an irrefutable reminder of the library's value
as a literal and figurative focal point for the
entire campus. Just as it was a starting point
for the long, painstaking trip that Moody
House has now completed, it continues to be
a starting point for a larger process that has
gained an undeniable momentum: providing
for Governor Dummer Academy's fourth and
fifth centuries.
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On Campus
NINE JOIN GDA FACULTY
s Governor Dummer Academy
begins its 233rd year, the faculty
is further strengthened by the addition
of nine new men and women.
Headmaster Peter Bragdon said, "The
Academy's greatest asset is its dedi-
cated and learned faculty, on which we
base the GDA tradition of master
teacher-student contact. We are fortu-
nate to number these accomplished
individuals to that tradition."
Jessica Truslow is the newest mem-
ber of GDA's Science Department.
Since graduating from Phillips Exeter
Academy and Colby College, Truslow
has furthered her education through
graduate work at Cornell
University's Shoal's Marine
Laboratory, Sterling College
and Columbia
University's
Klingenstein
Summer Institute. In
the summer of 1993,
she studied the
effects of acid rain
on three watersheds
in the Bohemia
region of the Czech
Republic. The fol-
lowing year, in addi-
tion to her studies
School in Barnesville, Ohio. In 1993,
Liske joined the Peace Corps as a youth
teacher and development worker with
children in central Tunisia. At Governor
Dummer, Liske is living in Commons III
and coaching women's junior varsity
soccer and men's thirds basketball.
In addition to his teaching duties,
Larsen also becomes the new Associate
Dean of Students. He graduated from
Gordon College, where he majored in
history and minored in secondary edu-
cation. Since then, he has been teaching
at Essex Christian Academy in South
Hamilton. At the Pingree School Day
Camp, Larsen served as athletic director
for two years, coached the girls' cross-
GDA ENTERS CYBERSPACE
through Columbia,
she worked at the
Eagle Hill Wildlife
Research Station.
Since 1992, Truslow
has taught science at
Hebron Academy,
where she led activi-
ties as part of the
Scholars in Nature
Institute. A member
of the junior varsity
field hockey and
women's varsity ice hockey coaching
staffs, she lives off campus.
Governor Dummer's History
Department welcomes A. Taylor Liske
and Scott P. Larsen Liske spent a year
after high school as an exchange stu-
dent in Geneva, Switzerland, before
graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the
College of Wooster in Ohio. After col-
lege, he spent a yea. sales intern
for the Cleveland Cavaliers and began
teaching in 1992 at the Olnej Friends
DA has staked out its own territory in cyberspace with its
own "home page" on the internet's World Wide Web. Internet surfers are
now able to find the Governor Dummer Academy admissions catalog and
other information at http://www.gda.edu, as a result of the efforts of
alumni Tay Vaughan ' 62 and Jason Male '90. Vaughan, owner of
Timestream, Inc. of Oakland, CA, and author of the definitive reference
book Multimedia, initiated the project through contacts with GDA trustees
and administrators. He then designed and constructed the home page,
donating considerable time and expertise, as well as a computer that will
enable GDA to "full node" access to the internet. Male, owner of Internet
Technologies, Inc. of Cambridge, MA, is providing GDA with free access to
the Web through his internet provider company. The two men form the
core of a new alumni/ae technology committee that will assist and advise
the Academy as it continues to expand its internet capabilities. (Anyone
interested in joining should contact Vaughan at tay@timestream.com.) While
portions of the GDA home page are still under construction, visitors soon
will be able to find The Archon, the GDA Monthly newsletter, athletics results
and an alumni/ae directory on line. E-mail, too, will soon be available for
all departments and individuals within the Academy. For further informa-
tion, contact us at archon@gda.edu.
country team to share the Eastern
Independent League Championship
and acted as assistant coach for the
boys' cross-country team, which won its
league championship. At GDA, Larsen
is coaching women's varsity soccer. He
resides off campus.
Accompanying Liske on the wom-
en's junior varsity soccer coaching staff
is the newest member of the GDA Fine
Arts Department, Leo Hart. Hart
attended Rutgers University and for ten
years headed his own studio, workshop
and gallery, DoveTale Designs. His
work at DoveTale included award-win-
ning toys and props, including the
Swan Boat for the Lorimar Productions
motion picture Flowers in the Attic. In
1988, he began a new venture as
designer and partner in Nature's Tale, a
company that produces a unique line of
educationally oriented books, posters
and mobiles, as well as greeting cards.
During the same period, Hart began
doing graphic design and consulting
with Macintosh computer software. He
lives off campus with his wife and two
children.
Betsy Winder joins the Development
Office as the new Director of Annual
Giving. Winder comes to Governor
Dummer via
Concord Academy,
where she was the
Director of Annual
Giving and
Alumnae/i Affairs.
A magna cum
laude graduate of
Lehigh University,
Winder has also
worked as an inde-
pendent consultant
and for William L.
Jaques & Co. Inc., a
non-profit fund-
raising consulting
firm. She is an
active volunteer
for the Brookwood
School Parents'
Association and
serves on the
board of trustees of
the Manchester
Historical Society.
She is also an avid
sailor, involved in off-shore racing and
cruising. Winder lives in Manchester
with her husband and two children.
Joining the Admissions Office as
Assistant Director is Kiyoe Hashimoto.
Hashimoto graduated in June from
Dartmouth College with a B.A. in his-
tory- Before attending Dartmouth, she
was a National Merit Finalist from Los
Altos High School in California. At
Dartmouth, Hashimoto was an under-
graduate advisor for the Office of
4 The Archon - Fall 1995
WRIGHT FOUNDATION VISITS CAMPUS
Residential Life and an admissions
office tour guide. She was also a four-
year member of the women's varsity
tennis squad and co-captain of the team
her senior year. Hashimoto lives on
campus in Farmhouse and will coach
tennis.
Cynthia Louise McKeen
brings a wealth of experience
to Governor Dummer as
Vocal Music Instructor.
McKeen received her B.F.A.
in musical theatre with con-
centrations in performance
and music from Emerson
College. She is the recipient
of the Carol Burnett Award
for achievement in perfor-
mance. She has studied
piano, voice and dance for
many years and has been
involved in numerous pro-
ductions as a performer,
director, choreographer and
musical director. She resides
off campus.
Danielle C. Moore is serv-
ing as the Assistant Athletic
Trainer Intern for the coming
year. Moore is a recent gradu-
ate of the University of New
Hampshire, where she studied physical
education with an emphasis in athletic
training and a minor in biology While
at UNH, Moore was a student athletic
trainer and teaching assistant for an
athletic training class. She was the
recipient of the Hancock Women's
Guild Scholarship and the Henry C.
Lord Scholarship and served as vice
president of the UNH Student Athletic
Trainer's Association.
Aaron Jay Hirsch joins the Student
Activities Office as an intern for the
coming academic year. Hirsch attended
both Proctor and Tabor Academies and
is a recent graduate of Roger Williams
University. While at RWU, Hirsch was
a Dean's List student, a resident assis-
tant and was twice listed in Wlw 's Who
In American Colleges and Universities.
During his senior year, he interned in
the admissions office of St. Andrew's
School in Barrington, RI. Hirsch is
being housed in the Field House and
will coach men's thirds basketball and
baseball.
oard members of the H.
Dudley Wright Foundation of Geneva,
Switzerland, the underwriter of the
Academy's Science 2000 program, visited
campus in September for the first time to
observe the innovative program in action.
The Foundation board received a multi-
media presentation from Science
Department Chair Stephen Metz, who
described the program's posi-
tive and dramatic effects on
student interest in the sci-
ences since its inception in
1989. The Foundation,
formed by the late benefactor H. Dudley
Wright, funds the Academy's unique
freshman curriculum, the annual
Frontiers in Science Education teacher
workshops, and tools for student
research and learning, in addition to pro-
viding an annual fellowship for a master
teacher at GDA.
Inspection Tour: Members
of the H. Dudley Wright
Foundation, which funds
GDA's Science 2000 pro-
ject, pose with GDA repre-
sentatives after their
meeting on campus.
Pictured from left are (front
row) Foundation board
member Cecil Altmann,
GDA Science Department
Chair Stephen Metz and
Foundation board President
Jean Patry. At rear (from
left) are GDA Academic
Dean Brian P. Lenane '72,
Foundation board members
Ion Bals and David Faust
and Headmaster Peter W.
Bragdon.
BOUFFARD AWARDED GRANT
DA science master teacher
Karen Bouffard recently was awarded a
grant by the National Science Foundation
to participate in programs designed to
improve the quality of physics education
in the U.S.
One of only 30 outstanding physics
teachers from around the country to have
been selected by the American
Association of Physics Teachers, Bouffard
spent two weeks at Gonzaga University
in Spokane, Washington, participating in
this year's PTR.A.-Plus summer pro-
gram. The program certifies Physics
Teaching Resource Agents (PT.R.A.s) to
instruct other teachers in workshops that
update subject knowledge and share new
teaching techniques.
First certified as a P.T.R.A. in 1986,
Bouffard was certified this summer to
present programs in cosmology, lasers,
graphing calculators, the
physics of toys, using
physics in math and
computer-based labs.
She also received advanced training in
electronics. She is required to conduct 30
workshop hours in the next year with
support from the National Science
Foundation.
In the past nine years, she has led
workshops at regional, state and national
meetings of science teachers at universi-
ties including Brandeis, Cornell, Harvard
and U.C.L.A. Already scheduled for this
year are short courses for Massachusetts
Science Teachers, Massachusetts Science
Supervisors and the New England
Section of the American Association of
Physics Teachers.
Bouffard is the author of a monthly
column in the journal The Physics Teaclier,
and has been nominated for the presti-
gious 1996 Tandy Award for innovative
science teaching.
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On Campus
FIFTEEN STUDENTS HONORED
AS SCHOLARS BY
COLLEGE BOARD
ifteen Governor Dummer
Academy students have been honored for
their high scores on national standard-
ized tests.
The College Board announced that
five members of the class of 1996 placed
among the 50,000 highest scores on the
PSAT/NMSQT, and ten members of the
class of 1995 were named AP scholars in
recognition of their exceptional achieve-
ment on the college-level Advanced
Placement (AP) Examinations.
The five high-scoring students, who
are now seniors at GDA, are Ariele
Ebacher, Clinton A. Gilbert, Raymond M.
Long, Ryan S. Martin and J. Todd
Walters. More than 1,000,000 students
took the PSAT last year and entered the
1996 Merit Program competition. The
50,000 qualifiers will compete for 6,700
Merit Scholarships to be awarded next
year.
Among GDA's ten Class of '95 AP
honorees is Jennifer Smyth, who qualified
for the AP Scholar with Distinction
Award by earning grades of 3 or above
KELLY ATTENDS N.E.H.-
SPONSORED SEMINAR
his summer, GDA master
Latin teacher Jeffrey P. Kelly '85 partici-
pated in the 1995 program of Summer
Seminars for School Teachers after receiv-
ing a stipend by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, a federal grant-
making agency.
The five-week seminar, titled
"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics," was held
at Boston University and directed by J.
David Blankenship. Teachers selected for
the program received a stipend to cover
travel, study and living expenses.
Each year, teachers and other educators
of grades K-12 at educational institutions
within the United States and its posses-
sions are eligible for the 70 N.E.H. semi-
nars held on campuses across the country
and abroad.
on five or more AP
Examinations, achieving an
average grade of 3.5. She is
currently a freshman at
Vassar College.
Four GDA students quali-
fied for the AP Scholar with
Honor Award by earning grades of 3 or
above on four or more AP Examinations,
with average grades higher than 3.25:
Sung J. An, a freshman at Wesleyan
University; Roland H. Backes, a freshman
at the University of Pennsylvania;
Amanda L. Harris, a freshman at Duke
University; and Martha H. Mercer, a
freshman at the University of Toronto.
Five students qualified for the AP
Scholar Award by completing three or
more AP Examinations, with grades of 3
or higher: Jacqueline A. Bean, a freshman
at Trinity University in Texas; Matthew
A. Dow, a freshman at Bates; Christopher
D. Terry, who matriculated at the United
States Naval Academy; Orlando A.
Velazco, a freshman at Trinity College in
Connecticut; and Eric J. Whittier, a fresh-
man at Vanderbilt University.
Approximately 11 percent of
America's graduating seniors took one or
more AP examinations this year. Only
about 12 percent of the more than 504,000
students who took AP Examinations in
May performed at a high level to merit
recognition as scholars.
GDA GOES EAST
ALUMNI/AE
RECEPTIONS
SCHEDULED
he GDA Alumni /ae Office
has scheduled receptions in Philadelphia,
New York, Boston and Los Angeles dur-
ing November, December and January,
and is advising all area alums to mark
their calendars. Headmaster Peter W.
Bragdon and others including Academic
Dean Brian P. Lenane '72, Dean of
Students Lynda Bromley, Director of
Development Karen E. McGinley,
Director of Admissions K.C. Cassell and
Director of Alumni-Parent Relations
Michael A. Moonves are among those
planning to represent the Academy at
these events. On November 1, GDA will
host a reception at the Merion Golf Club
in Philadelphia, followed by a November
2 event at the Harvard Club in
Manhattan. December 7 is the date for
the GDA Holiday Gathering at the
Harvard Club in Boston, and January 10
is set for a reception at the Riviera
Country Club in Los Angeles. Looking
ahead to spring, GDA will again host
Governor Dummer Academy Night at
the Boston Pops on a date to be
announced later. The Alumni/ae Office
will send invitations to alums, parents
and friends in these local areas.
Bragdon in Bangkok: Headmaster Peter W.
Bragdon joins current parents Adisorn and
Nijaporn Charanachitta P'97 this spring in
Thailand.
eadmaster Peter
W. Bragdon, Academic Dean
Brian P. Lenane '72 and Director
of Development Karen E.
McGinley traveled to Thailand,
Indonesia and Japan during the
spring to visit parents,
alumni/ae and friends in that
region. In addition to a large
reception in Bangkok, hosted by
Paitoon Maneepairoj '74, the
threesome attended meetings
and receptions in all three coun-
tries during their whirlwind, 10-
day tour. They were so well
received, in fact, that they plan
to return to the Far East in
November. Their itinerary
includes a November 12 reception for
GDA parents and alumni/ae at the Lotte
World Hotel in Seoul, Korea.
6 The Archon- Fall 1 995
PESCOSOLIDO
CREATES $2 MILLION
TRUST
arl A. Pescosolido, the father
of late GDA Board of Trustees President
Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr. '55, has created a
$2 million charitable trust designed to
underwrite a significant portion of the
Academy's new library.
The trust, which represents the largest
gift from an individual in the Academy's
232-year history, names Governor
Dummer as sole beneficiary.
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"Governor Dummer Academy is
extremely grateful to Mr. Pescosolido for
his generous gift, which makes it possi-
ble for us to begin construction of the
new library next summer," said
Headmaster Peter W. Bragdon. "To
demonstrate the Academy's gratitude,
the Trustees have decided to name the
new facility in Mr. Pescosolido's honor."
Pescosolido, who also is the father of
Wink Pescosolido '57, has a long history
of philanthropy. In 1987, he endowed the
Carl A. Pescosolido Professorship in
Roman Culture at Harvard College, from
which he graduated in 1934. The founder
of Lido Oil Company, from which he
retired in 1988, he also is the author of
The Proud Italians, published in 1995 by
the National Italian American
Foundation.
FALL ART SHOWS AT
CARL YOUNGMAN
GALLERY
Making it official: Carl A. Pescosolido signs the
paperwork naming Governor Dummer Academy the
sole beneficiary of a $2 million charitable trust. The
funds will be used for the construction of the
Academy's new libran/, which will bear the
Pescosolido name.
All together now...: The GDA Alumni/ae Glee
Club singers tune up for their October 8th,
Portland, ME, appearance. Top row (L-R): Clark
Neily '37, Art Balser '56, Frank Huntress '52, John
Witherspoon, Marc am Rhein '50, Denis Golden
'62, Alan Tucker '59, Dick Pew '54. Bottom row (L-
R): conductor Art Sager, David Yesair '50, Pete
Sutton '47, Tim Greene '50, Put Flint '37, GP'99,
Irv Williamson '45, Ben Pearson '44, Art du
Grenier '50, accompanist Ben Stone.
rom October 20th through
November 17th, the Kaiser Visual Arts
Center at Governor Dummer Academy
will present the second of two art shows
planned for this fall in its Carl Youngman
Gallery.
The exhibit, titled Windows Inside Out,
will feature the work of Province-town-
based artist
Diane
Schumway The
opening recep-
tion is scheduled
for Friday,
October 20th,
from 6 to 8 p.m.
in the
Youngman
Gallery.
The first
exhibit, Fourteen
Young Artists,
featured the
works of local
artists, Cliff
Peacock, Barbara Duval, Allan Bull,
Alexander Hale, Bill Benjamin, Rob
Peacock, Charlie Crowley, Claire Sanford,
Mary Hughes, Wendover Woodworks,
Rebecca Welsh, Alexander Scaramanga,
John Neprud and George Pandapas.
Nearly 200 people attended the
September 15th opening of this well-
received show, which ran through
October 13th.
The Carl Youngman Gallery is open
Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays by
appointment. For more information, call
(508) 465-1763.
VOLUNTEER
WEEKEND
KICKS-OFF '95-'96
ANNUAL FUND
olunteer Weekend, October
13th and 14th, officially kicked off the
1995-96 Annual Giving program, as more
than 80 Class Agents, Class Secretaries
and parent volunteers participated
in discussion groups and attended
informational sessions, workshops
and athletic and social events.
The two-day series of events
included an Alumni/ae Council
meeting, a Class Secretaries round-
table discussion, workshops for
volunteers and panel sessions that exam-
ined the views of current faculty and stu-
dents.
This year's Annual Fund goal has
been set at $685,000, representing a three
percent increase over last year's success-
ful drive in which $667,000 was raised.
Thirty-three percent of GDA alumni/ae
contributed to that effort.
According to Betsy Winder, GDA's
Director of Annual Giving, "Each year,
the Annual Fund relies on the hard work
of the volunteers, parents and alumni/ae,
as well as the generosity of the entire
GDA community. This year we hope to
see the same dedication."
The Annual Giving program is
directed by Putnam P. Flint '37, GP'99
and Daniel M. Morgan '67, co-chairs of
the Trustees' Development Committee.
They are working closely with the Class
Agents, who are responsible for
alumni/ae giving, as well as the Parents
Fund Committee, chaired again this year
by Bob and Judy Gore P'95'97.
Coordinating current parent giving
efforts are senior parent chairs Tom and
Nancy Carroll P'96'98, junior parent
chairs Joseph and Denise McManus P'97,
sophomore parent chairs Skip and Judy
Forrest P'98 and freshman parent chairs
Cushing and Sandra Titcomb P'97'99.
The Archon - Fall 1995 7
Ashley Russell,
Edward Guzman, Sung Jin An
Win Top Honors at 232nd
Commencement
Ashley B. Russell of Hampton Falls, NH,
Edward Guzman of Los Angeles and
Sung Jin An of Newburyport were
awarded Governor Dummer Academy's high-
est awards at the Academy's 232nd
Commencement exercises June 1 and 2.
The Academy presented nearly 50
awards and prizes at the two-day commence-
ment exercises, which included a keynote
address by Joan W. Welsh, president of the
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in
Rockland, ME. (See accompanying text)
Russell was named recipient of the
Morse Flag as
"the senior
whose record in
all respects
meets the high-
est approval of
the faculty." A
four-year mem-
ber of the varsity
field hockey,
basketball and
lacrosse teams,
Russell was last
year's recipient
of the Carl A.
Pescosolido, Jr.
Award. A High
Honor Roll stu-
dent and mem-
ber of the Cum
Laude Society,
Russell also was
awarded the
Harvard Book
Prize after her
junior year. She
served as Head
Tour Guide, and was president of Students
Against Drunk Driving her junior and senior
years. She is attending Brown University this
fall.
Guzman received the Academy Prize as
"the senior whose unselfishness and sports-
manship has best exemplified the spirit of the
school." He also won the Edivard J. Rybicki
Prize "for best demonstrating the qualities
found in the teacher for whom the prize is
named: selflessness, sense of humor, responsi-
bility toward the welfare of others and the
courage to live by a strong set of personal
beliefs." An Honor Roll student, he
was awarded the Ingham Fund
Scholarship after his junior year. He
served as Editor-in-Chief of the
Academy's student newspaper The
Governor, and was a four-year mem-
ber of the cross-country and baseball
teams. He is attending Stanford
University this year.
An was awarded the
Thorndike Hilton Cup as "...the
ranking scholar of the graduating
class." The winner of the Memorial
Mathematics Prize and the Bausch &
Lomh Medal for science after his
junior year, An was a three-year
member of the football team and
four-year member of the basketball
and tennis teams. A Cum Laude
Society member, he was a tour guide
and a member of the math team. He
matriculated at Wesley an University
this fall.
The Peter Marshall French
Trophy was awarded to Lindsey E.
Swallow. The inscription on the
award reads, "...to a student whose
perseverance, sportsmanship and generous
spirit on the playing field, regardless of dis-
tinction as an athlete, represent the highest
standards of participation." Swallow was a
member of the varsity cross country, ice
hockey and track teams. An Honor Roll stu-
dent, she was last year's recipient of the
Columbia University Book Award. She is attend-
ing New York University.
David C. Kelmer won the Goodwin
Athletic Prize, directed to "... the senior who,
by his athletic achievement and sportsman-
ship, has brought the greatest honor to his
school during the past year." Kelmer cap-
tained the football and baseball teams as a
senior and served as junior class president. He
also was a Special Olympics volunteer and a
member of Students Against Drunk Driving.
He is attending Bentley College this fall.
The Anne Marie Murphy Athletic
Award was presented to Jacqueline A. Bean.
Bean, who has played at the varsity level
since her freshman year, was a member of the
varsity field hockey, cross country, basketball
and track teams. An Honor Society member,
she was selected for the All-New England and
All-Independent School League teams for her
performances in cross-country, basketball and
track. She was captain of the cross-country
and basketball teams as a senior. She entered
Trinity College this fall.
The Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr. Athletic
Awards were presented to Kate E. Manzella
and Daniel A. DiPietro. The awards are "...pre-
sented at the conclusion of their junior year, to
those scholar athletes — male and female —
whose academic and athletic performances
exhibit the character and commitment to
excellence of Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr., President
of the Board 1980-1992."
1995 Commencement Address
by Joan W. Welch
When I was invited to give this address, I was
so excited about all the things I wanted to
say to you. There is so much to think about
as young people in this year of 1995.
The most important theme I want to convey
comes from a saying used by Kurt Hahn, a German
Jewish educator and the founder of Outward Bound.
Kurt Hahn said, "Plus est en vu— you are more than
you know. If you can just be made to see it, perhaps,
for the rest of your life you will be unwilling to settle
for less." So I want to talk about knowing and how, in
our lives, we come to not only know ourselves, but
how to discover that we are even more than we know.
And that we will not, then, settle for less.
The concept that we are all more than we
know is what drew me to Outward Bound. I had
heard a lot about Outward Bound before I decided to
take a sailing course during my vacation 14 years ago.
The first day of my course, our instructor
helped us pull away from the dock using oars. (Our
"pulling boats," as we call them, are 30-foot ketches —
very basic — on which 10 to 12 people live and sail, or
row, if there's no wind, for a number of days.) When
we got to the middle of the bay, she said, "Okay, here
is how this works: There's the mainsail and this small
sail is the mizzen. See if you can figure out how to get
the sails up and if we can get this boat to sail."
Now, none of us were sailors. I had come to
Maine from Colorado and was a pretty good moun-
taineer, but had chosen my course because I didn't
know anything about sailing and wanted to learn! The
other nine men and women aged 18 to 54 were from
all over the country and some knew a little about sail-
ing, but not much! Yet together, using our common
sense and intuitions, we managed to get the sails up
and begin moving along the water, at which time our
instructor applauded our success and began explain-
ing the reasons for the sails and the beginning con-
cepts of wind and motion. It was a glorious success
and the rest of the course continued in that style —
learning by doing and learning that we all had more
in us than we knew, and we had even more when we
utilized the resources of the whole group!
I took that concept back to Colorado, began
utilizing the techniques I learned at Outward Bound
with the women, children and men I was working
with in a human service agency who were struggling
to change family and work behaviors and relation-
ships.
How do we know that we are "more?" How
do we come to discover the strength and abilities
inside ourselves? Of course there are life experiences,
challenges and adventures, both chosen (like Outward
Bound) and unchosen (like natural disasters or family
struggles).
I strongly believe that by using three primary
values we grow to become more and to know more
the goodness and strength within us. By living lives of
service, responsibility and, as Kurt Hahn said, "above
all, compassion," we come to discover through others
and the world around us that we ourselves are
strong indeed.
We must begin by living these values within
ourselves. Being of service, being responsible and
having compassion to and for ourselves must come
first.
Next, we must try to live these values with our
families and friends. My mother would kindly
remind me that charity begins at home and that how
I treat my family is as important, though sometimes
harder, than how I treat my friends and co-workers.
Lastly, our larger world needs service, responsi-
bility and compassion. As Marion Wright Edelman,
founder of the Children's Defense Fund, said,
"Service is the rent we pay for living."
I. Let me talk first about knowing oneself,
being responsible to and for oneself:
All of us need to be encouraged to taist our own
voices and intuition. Find your voice; try it out.
Support others trying theirs out, and listen to their
voices.
Keep a journal. Journal writing is an important
concept in Outward Bound and I notice it's also
encouraged here at Governor Dummer. Logging our
personal thoughts, impressions, feelings is encour-
aged on all our courses and helps one learn about
oneself. I didn't start keeping a journal until my
mid-thirties, and now, almost 20 years later, I can't
tell you how helpful it is to go back and trace my
internal and external journeys. I so wish I had
started much, much earlier. Journal writing doesn't
need to be regimented — some years I've only writ-
ten once, or maybe not at all, sometimes I write
daily.
Take responsibility for your health. We are
living in a time when health issues — AIDS, cancer,
anorexia /bulimia, heart attacks — are deadly; being
responsible about our behavior sexually and nutri-
tionally is critical for our well-being. Stand up for
what is good for your body and your spirit. Don't be
afraid to use your voice and say, "no." Your body
comes first, without its good health we are of no use
to ourselves or to others.
Have compassion for yourself. You are your
own best friend. Eleanor Roosevelt said,
"Remember: No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent." Take yourself by the hand
occasionally, especially if you have suffered a disap-
pointment. If we didn't do our best at a particular
time, we can learn from that and resolve to do better
next time.
Laugh. If s always important to be able to
laugh at ourselves. I have a personal story to tell:
One of my favorite adventures was climbing Long's
Peak, a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, during a full
moon in September. My friend and I started at mid-
night from the trailhead with a huge moon lighting
our way. We didn't need headlamps the moon was
so bright; it was gorgeous. Lots of wildlife was out
— porcupines, owls, night hawks.
There are several precarious parts to that
climb, including a large boulder field and then a
very narrow trail section along a high ridge with an
exposed drop off of many thousands of feet. We
finally reached the peak's summit six hours later just
as the sun was rising from the west. It was a
moment that I will always remember, one of peace
and beauty. I was filled with such gratefulness for
being alive and for the magnificence of this planet
earth that I was so high upon.
The next day, after returning home, I went
for a short run up a valley near my home, and on
coming back down the valley was daydreaming
about the wonderful climb. I was feeling quite smug
about summitting on another fourteener and being
so sure-footed despite moonlit shadows, the narrow
trail and the boulder field. In that very instant that I
proudly thought of walking across that boulder
field, my foot stumbled on a small pebble and I
went sprawling on the path, scraping my knees and
elbows. I felt humiliated, hoped no one saw me, but
then began to laugh at the irony. Pride does go
before a fall.
II. Service, responsibility and compassion for
our family and friends, how do we accomplish all of
that and learn about ourselves in the process? Every
Outward Bound course is made up of a group of
eight to 10 members plus two instructors. In the
course of a few weeks this group comes to be as
close as a family and, in fact, struggles with many
similar dynamics. Many of the learnings that occur
on our courses have real meaning for people back in
their homes and schools.
People learn that we need to talk to each
other to reach our destination and to get the group
to work together. We need to ask for what we need
and we need to tell each other when we think we
and they are doing well, or not so well.
Honesty. The same is true in our families. By
consciously respecting our families and friends; sup-
porting their voices, feelings and behaviors, even
though we may not always agree, especially in times
of conflict and disagreement, we are then able to
work together in ways that build trust and lead to
accomplishing and learning great things about our-
selves and each other.
At Outward Bound we also learn that we
can't accomplish much without the help of the
group working together to set the sail, cook meals,
plan the next day; just as we really have a much
harder time in life if we don't get the help we need
from our families and friends.
In rock climbing, a common activity at
Outward Bound, we use a safety technique called
"belaying." This is a method by which the climber is
held on a rope by another person in case the climber
should fall, thereby keeping him or her safe from
harm. It is a true safety line.
An Outward Bound student once said, "I
have learned the depths of strength and trust that
are present in me and my fellow man. I shall try to
remember that any of my neighbors or fellow
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The Archon - Fall 1995 9
continued from page 8
Winning the Ingham Fund Scholarship,
designated to "help an industrious and able
student through school," was junior Julie Gutin.
A High Honor Roll student, Gutin is active in
the drama club, is a member of the soccer team,
and has been a Special Olympics volunteer
since her freshman year.
Junior Jonathan Todd Walters received the
Francis Scholarship as "a student of high char-
acter who has made substantial intellectual
progress, and who has demonstrated a spirit of
cooperation and helpfulness in the life of the
school." President of the debate club, Walters
was named an outstanding German student his
freshman and sophomore years. He is a writer
for the Academy student newspaper The
Governor, and is a member of the soccer, bas-
ketball and tennis teams.
The Hale Scholarship was awarded to
junior Scott T. Coulon. That scholarship is desig-
nated for a "... student who, has shown the
most improve-
ment in the vari-
ous aspects of
school life, and
has become an
esteemed con-
tributor to the
well-being of the
Governor
Dummer com-
munity."
Lauren E.
Carroll was
named recipient
of the Columbia
University Book
Award, which is
presented "to
that junior who,
by his or her
unselfish atti-
tude and contri-
butions to the
school commu-
nity, best exem-
plifies the
school's motto
'Non Sibi Sed
Aliis' ('Not for
Self but For
Others')."
Kathryn A.
Renna won the
Holy Cross
Going and Staying
1995 Baccalaureate Address
by John Mercer '64
According to some of my Governor
Dummer classmates when I call them at
telethons, the world is going to hell.
Governor Dummer is not what it once was, they
say; and this is pretty amusing from those who,
while they were here, never showed any particu-
lar affection for the place.
My classmates, on the brink of their fifties
now, compare the world they perceive with the
world of their memories. They seem to imply that
all that is good is going or gone, and all that is
bad is here for good.
Someday you will come back here, or
think your way back here, and you may be temp-
ted to say it's all changed, degraded, not what it
once was. You may even recall your years here as
some sort of ideal time. I know it's hard to
believe.
My classmates — and others — are
thinking that way. No one, they think,
could hit a baseball like their classmate
Mike Kotarski, could debate like John
O'Dea, or could break rules with quite the
same effrontery as Lou Higgins.
But I do not, out of kindness,
remind my carping classmates that if these
elements have been swept from the scene
by ghostly arms revoking, also swept off
have been the woeful and sinister ele-
ments: the destructive lily-white exclusiv-
ity of the school; the school's all-maleness,
which was no kindness in the skewed and
unpleasant view of the world it fostered;
the brutal intolerance of difference, includ-
ing the unremitting homophobia charac-
teristic of all society at the time, but
especially prevalent in all-male societies
where young men had to reassure them-
selves constantly.
As you return either in body or
mind after some clarifying break with
your past, with your memory, you may
miss and feel nostalgic toward whatever
you gloried in — perhaps, for instance, the
way that grace and beauty clothe competi-
tive ferocity in an athlete like Jackie Bean,
perhaps the unmatchable detachment, the
cool panache of the way Ambi Bowo
addresses a microphone. And you, like
my classmates, may be inclined not to
notice that certain woeful or sinister ele-
ments have disappeared as well.
There are after all two ways to
view our won history: one as a devolu-
tion, a degradation away from some ideal
state, the other as an interesting collection
of events, the relationship of which can
tell us something about how to live today.
In one view our own history is linear, predicted,
designed — maybe even fated. In the other view,
the events making up our history — the events
stored in our memory — are unpredictable in
their relationship, undesigned. The lack of pre-
dictable design allows one to approach each day
as new, each moment as potentially decisive.
The world is going to hell — just ask any-
one, especially someone over the age of, say, 25.
In fact, some wag once said, "Everyone agrees
the world is going to hell, and it has been going
to hell since exactly one year after everyone left
school." Well, for you, this may be the school.
We have a choice in how we view the
world — view our collective history and view
our personal history, which is our memory. We
can assume a fatalistic view that we are on a
train we can't control, specifically that we are in
some downward spiral away from goodness. Or
we can withhold judgment about the meaning of
the whole trend and, instead, look for the
smaller patterns which have resulted from our
unconscious choices up to this point — to do so
in hopes of making more explicit choices and
thereby willing ourselves toward the lives we
mean to live.
My friend Peter Morrin, class of 1963, is
working on this liberated and refreshing
reassessment. Peter and I were friends here
together, friends in college, friends in the army;
as far as I can tell, because of the simultaneities
of our lives, we'll be friends again soon in some
nursing home. Recently, he has sent me 50 pages
reworking the Sixties — examining our careless
excesses, both the physical excesses and, even
more so, the terrible assumptions we made and
acted out. He's reviewing that period, reconsid-
ering, writing about it, trying to make explicit
the assumptions that motivated him, unraveling
them, trying to live more fully through his own
history, the history of others, the massed history
of our generation — trying to refine a life, to
remake himself with will and purpose, trying to
shape his life, now that he is awake to it. He
challenges me to wake up to my own memory.
So here is some advice, not that anyone
asked for it — advice not about school or accom-
plishment or riches, but about living with your-
self for many, many productive years. Since time
cleans the slate so thoroughly — takes both the
loved moment and that despised, takes both the
beautiful and the horrible, then view each new
year, month, day , not as a single integer in the
sum of your history, but as a liberating opportu-
nity for unexpected vision. In fact, imagine your-
selves as the springtime leaves emerging in the
continued on page 26
June 1995
Senior Dinner Address
by Myrtlean Stockdale
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When I was first asked to speak tonight,
my first instinct was to say no. You
see, as most of you probably know, I
am a rather quiet person, and speaking in front
of large crowds is not one of my dreams come
true. Then, in that instant that I was about to
turn down this opportunity, I remembered
something that my sophomore English teacher,
Mr. Edward Rybicki, said to my class. He told us
that our stay at Governor Dummer would not be
complete unless we expressed our feelings in a
chapel talk. 1 decided that speaking tonight
would suffice.
In thinking about what I would say
tonight, I figured that I was supposed to talk
about my four-year Byfield experience. It's
amazing to think that I've been at GDA for four
years. Now I know the true meaning of the
phrase "how time flies when you're having fun."
I won't stand here before you tonight and say
that these have been the best four years of my
life, because I would hate to get thrown out of
school a few days before graduation for breaking
the honesty rule. There have been times, during
heated classroom discussions when I wanted to
escape, or on boring Sundays when my only
source of entertainment was a physics book
when I wanted to hop on the first plane back to
Chicago and my family.
Those hard times, though, are no com-
parison to what I have gained from attending
Governor Dummer or how it has helped me to
develop into the person I am today. Coming
from an elementary school that was 100 percent
black to Governor Dummer, where for four
years I have been the only black female in my
class, was, to say the least, a learning experience
for me. In the beginning, I did not know if I
would make it. Having never been around any
whites in my life, you can imagine my immedi-
ate doubts about this school. I know that for
some of you, I was probably the first black per-
son with whom you had ever talked. If my pres-
ence here has helped at least one person to
realize that the color of one's skin does not
define the values, dreams, or soul of an individ-
ual, then I know that my time here has been ben-
eficial to the world.
Though at times I felt isolated and lonely,
the friends that I have made here helped me to
survive it all. If I carry with me nothing else
from GDA, I know that I will always have the
friendships I have made in my heart. Friends
like Mr. Suggs, Ms. Adams-Wall, Judy, Blair,
Miranda, Richard and so many others
have made my stay here special and
worthwhile. One person that I could not
have survived here without is Marisela
Aguilera, who has always been by my
side through both the good and bad times
and who has put up with me through my
ever-changing moods. She is the true defi-
nition of a friend, and I hope that you all
have a Marisela in your lives, and if not,
that one day you will.
Though I am sad to part with
many of you, I know that it is time for me
to move on and that I'm just closing one
of the first of many chapters in my life. If I
have any advice to offer to the class of
1995, it is to live life to its fullest because
just as surely as we are here today, we can
be no more tomorrow. Those of us who
knew Angel Talavera painfully realized
that three years ago. As Carlyle once com-
mented, "One life — a little gleam of time
between two eternities." We should all
think about our own lives and what we
want people to say about us once our time
on this earth is over. Let the world remem-
ber us as people who stood up for what
we believed in and who never knew the
meaning of the word "can't."
Over the spring break, I was watching
Geraldo — and I know from my history
class discussions that we are a talk show-
watching class — and out of the many
brilliant things Geraldo said, I remember what
he told two sisters who absolutely hated each
other. He said, "You know, we are on this earth
for about two minutes, and then we are dead for
a long time. Spend your lives loving, not hat-
ing." The world is so filled with anger and hate,
which leads to such senseless and tragic acts as
the Oklahoma City bombing. I would like to
think that as the Class of 1995 parts and heads in
different directions,
we will each spread a little love to wherever we
go, making the world a better place.
Know that no matter how far we go and
what we do, June 2nd is a day that v/e will all
share for the rest of our lives. As it was once
said, "We must always have old memories and
young hopes." Hold fast to your remembrance
of GDA, but know that many great things are to
come in the future. Never ever say "goodbye" —
just "until we meet again."
/'J
Book Prize for
her "distin-
guished acade-
mic perform-
ance in a chal-
lenging pro-
gram, for
demonstrating
a sense of con-
cern for others
and a strong
sense of respon-
sibility."
Lauren M.
Abernathy was
awarded the
Colby College
Book Prize. The
award is pre-
sented "...to a
junior who has
shown profi-
ciency in the
study of history
and displayed
community
spirit and evi-
dence of per-
sonal growth."
Alanna M.
Pike and Michael
C. Noon were
named the
recipients of the
Thespian
Award for their
"meritorious work in the field of dramatics."
Michael Angelis was awarded The
Mercer Art Prize, which is designated for the
senior "with exceptional creativity and origi-
nality who has completed with honor grades
all available studio art and art history courses
at the Academy." He is attending Washington
University.
The winner of the Barriskill Prize for
contributions in the field of music was Adam
Paid Tagliamonte. He entered Dickinson College
in September.
The Gaffney Prize went to Marisela
Aguilera. The prize is awarded to "...a senior
who, in the opinion of the faculty, has been
most considerate of the rights, opinions and
sensibilities of others."
continued on page 26
i
Shining moments: Graduating seniors
Henry Cho, Elizabeth Byrne, Anibiya
Bowo, Riley Batchelder and Laura
Barnes attend Baccalaureate '95.
Four friends: Four members of the Clas
of 1995 — Jae Seung fang, Raymond
Pribadi, Raaid Alireza and Sung fin An
— share a happy moment together.
Part of the procession: Graduates
]ames Moulison, Marika Robertson,
Lindsey Swallow and Christopher Terry
prepare for their big moment.
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he Academy's largest-ever
building project took a giant
leap forward during the
I summer — after years of
discussion and planning — as
Moody House moved from its
original Elm Street location to
a new home between Evans
Cottage and Nannie B.
Phillips Dormitory.
The move reflected both
the GDA Board of Trustees'
edict that the Academy's new
library and mathematics-
Top and Bottom:
As workers free
Moody House
from its founda-
tion, others
progress on a
third-floor dormer
that will expand a
faculty apartment.
Going up: The building is lifted off
its foundation and supported by steel
I-beams in preparation for the move.
12 The Archon - Fall 1995
science center would be opened by
September 1998, and the receipt of sev-
eral gifts totaling $6.5 million toward
the $12 million total cost.
Moody's relocation, which was
completed in time for the opening of
the 1995-96 academic year, makes way
for the new library on its site at the
heart of the GDA campus. The Little
Red Schoolhouse, which has flanked
Moody during this century, will be
moved to the entrance of school to pro-
vide additional space for the new
structure. The mathematics-science
center plans call for the renovation and
expansion of the existing Schumann
Science Center and the relocation of
Noyes Library.
Carl A. Pescosolido, Sr., father of
late GDA Board President Skip
Pescosolido '55, has committed to a $2
million charitable trust designated for
the new library. In recognition of the
donation and the fact that it is the
largest gift the Academy has ever
received from an individual, the GDA
Board has decided to name the new
library in Pescosolido's honor.
The Academy also has received a
second $2 million gift from anonymous
On the road: The rear section of the
building having been left behind for a
second trip, the main portion moves
over fabricated wooden decking toward
the Frost Building.
parent donors, as well as a $1 million
contribution from David Harris '36, des-
ignated for construction of the two new
facilities.
The Board of Trustees voted last
December to proceed with plans to build
the two buildings in response to a two-
year study by an administrative commit-
tee chaired by Academic Dean Brian P.
Lenane '72. That committee, which
included Science Department Chair
Stephen Metz and Librarian Mary Leary,
presented a clear and compelling case
for the structures, based on the academic
needs of current and future students.
Soon after the Trustees' vote,
Robert F. Schumann '40 P'66'74
announced that he would contribute
$525,000 toward the construction of a
Between the old and the new: These two
views show Moody House on Middle Road,
passing between Perkins — its former neigh-
bor on Elm Street — and the Pescosolido
Field House.
A house divided: The front — and original
— portion of Moody House is divided from
the rear and moved off the foundation. (Note
the mirror that remains on the wall in the
second-floor student room.)
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In the trees: Workers take special care to
ensure that damage to the Academy's
trees is kept to a minimum.
Going down:
Moody House
sits high and dry
just after the
truck that moved
it to its new loca-
tion has backed
out from under-
neath. The con-
crete forms at left
and right will be
used to create the
foundations onto
which Moody
will be lowered.
new mathematics-science center.
The Schumann family underwrote
the transformation of Lang
Gymnasium into the Schumann
Science Center in 1971.
Alumnus Richard C. Croll
'58 presented the Academy with a
$100,000 donation this summer for
the express purpose of acquiring
books and other resources for the
new library. In announcing his
gift, Croll said he was designating
the funds for library acquisitions
because he remembered the GDA
14 The Archon - Fall 1995
Library and Mhthemrtics-Science Center
Gifts io Dhte
S2 MILLION ~ CflRL fl PESCOSOLtDO. SR P 55 57
$2 MILLION - HMONYMDUS
$1 million - Dhvid Harris "3B
$1.1-61 Ira
$525,000 - Robert F. Schumhnn 40. P 6B 74
$10010 - Richard C Croll '58
$1
$3
S14.000 - Elizhbeth Lymsii Trust IP'601
$16(1 -Other Gifts of Under $1010
Almost home: Filling the entire width of
Middle Road, Moody House passes the
Nannie B. Phillips Dormitory (left) and
prepares for its final turn.
Solid footings: New poured footings await the arrival c
Moody House. At left is Nannie B. Phillips Dormitory,
while Evans Cottage is at right.
collections were insufficient in the
1950s.
The new library and mathe-
matics-science center are currently
being designed by the architectural
firm of Perry Dean Rogers of
Cambridge, in consultation with
the Board's Buildings and
Grounds Committee. Designs for
both buildings have both been
approved as of this issue, and the
architects are projecting an early
completion for the library —
September, 1997.
ARCHON PROFILE
V-E Plus 50: Tke Only
WITNES
Witnessing the surrender: General Oberst A. Jodl
signs the documents of the German surrender as
Capt. Ted Bergmann '37 (third from left) looks on.
With ]odl at the table are Admiral Von Friedeberg
(left) and Major W. Oxenius.
J? was May 6, 1945, and the "war to end
all wars" was raging in Europe. U.S.
Army Captain Ted Bergmann '37, a 24-
year-old radio public relations officer on
Eisenhower's staff, was dispatched to the
general's forward command center in Reims,
France. Something — though no one could
say just what — was about to happen, and
he should be there to record it.
After one false start — and a precious
few minutes sleep for Bergmann on a bedroll
beneath the war room conference table — the
Allied and German generals finally signed
the documents of the German capitulation at
2:41 a.m. on May 7.
Fifty years later — to the day, though
not necessarily the hour — Bergmann is
standing beside that conference table again,
almost literally among the ghosts of the men
who made history there. For a second time,
he is part of a ceremony in that room. This
time, the ceremony commemorates a half-cen-
tury's passage since the first ceremony. And
this time, Bergmann has the distinction of
being the only surviving witness to the ear-
lier event to be present at this one.
In February of 1945, General Dwight
Eisenhower had established Supreme
Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary
Forces (SHAEF) in the main wing of Reims'
Technical High School. Bergmann recalls
that the building's red brick facade earned it
the nickname "The Little Red Schoolhouse,"
though he adds that the industrial-looking
structure bore little resemblance to GDA's
building of the same name. Looking back to
1945, Bergmann remembers, "I was sta-
tioned in Paris, and I was told by my supe-
rior that something was going to happen [in
Reims], and I'd better get up there with a
recording crew. There was the suggestion
that it could be the signing of the surrender,
but no one could confirm it."
"We got to Reims in the early
evening, and we went to the War Room,
where we set up our equipment," he says,
explaining that he and his crew installed a
microphone at every position around the
conference table. A newsreel crew also
was setting up lights and cameras in the
room, at least until about 8 p.m., when
Eisenhower Chief of Staff Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith entered the room and barked
his disapproval: "What do you think this is,
a Hollywood sound stage?" he said,
according to Bergmann.
Smith was taken aside by a Navy
captain, Eisenhower's aide — who also
happened to be a former CBS Radio vice
president — to explain that the event facing
them was going to be an historic moment
and should be recorded for posterity. Smith
then relented, but only partially, Bergmann
recalls: "'AH right,' he said, 'but get all those
microphones off the table.'" "We could have
only one microphone, which we put in the
middle of the table. Since Smith said we
couldn't have any wires showing, I sent out
for a drill and drilled a hole in the middle of
the table for the microphone wire."
"At about 10 o'clock, we were told
that the show was on," says Bergmann. "In
marched all of the Allied representatives,
who took their positions around the table.
Then three Germans were ushered in."
Smith addressed the Germans, asking, "Are
you prepared to surrender on all fronts?"
Bergmann says the German representatives
replied, "We are prepared to surrender to
the Americans, the British and the French
on the Western Front, but not the Russians
on the Eastern Front." "That's totally unac-
ceptable," said Smith. "You must surrender
on all fronts unconditionally."
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The Germans explained that they were not
authorized to commit to a surrender on
the Russian Front. Asked why, they said
they feared that the Russians would "take
our armies and march them into Russia to
be used as slave labor." Bergmann says
Russian General Susloparoff "broke into
gales of laughter" at hearing such a "pre-
posterous suggestion."
"The Germans were told to go back
and get the authorization to surrender on
all fronts or there would be no surrender,"
says Bergmann. "Our side of the table
broke up and left, and I was left there with
the techs and the newsreel guys." Told to
continue standing by, Bergmann says he
laid out his bedroll under the conference
table and went to sleep.
"Suddenly, at about 2:20 a.m.,"
Bergmann remembers, "all the lights went
on in the room, and somebody yelled, 'Get
up — they're back!'" At about 2:30 a.m.,
Bergmann says a new delegation of
Germans, led by General Oberst Jodl,
Admiral Doenitz' chief of staff, marched
into the room. "By this time Hitler was
dead, and Doenitz was the head of the
German government," says Bergmann.
'Are you prepared to surrender
unconditionally on all fronts?'" Bergmann
says Smith asked again. Jodl said he was
authorized by Doenitz to commit to the
complete German surrender. "Papers were
then passed across the table, to the
Germans, and the French, the Russians,
the British and the Americans signed in
turn," says Bergmann. "It was all com-
pleted at 2:41 a.m."
The war was not officially over, how-
ever. The agreement signed in
Reims would not become official
until it was ratified by the heads of state
— Truman, Churchill, DeGaulle and
Stalin. If word leaked to one side before
the other, Bergmann says, it certainly
would have caused needless casualties on
the front lines. Therefore, everyone in the
room was warned to keep the signing a
secret for 24 hours.
Eisenhower entered the War Room
after the signing was completed and the
Germans had been dismissed. A short
time later, Bergmann recorded Eisen-
hower's statement declaring the end of the
war in Europe. The recording was never
used, however, because an Associated
Press correspondent named Ed Kennedy
failed to honor the secrecy agreement.
Once back in Paris, Kennedy telephoned
his London office to spread the news.
"Then it was on the wire to New York,
and the surrender was announced," says
Bergmann, noting that Kennedy was
"thrown out of the theatre within six
hours" by the military authorities.
Forty-five years later, in 1990,
Bergmann and his wife Beverly
returned to France on a vacation,
and he returned to the War Room in
Reims for the first time since the War's
Broadcasting the news: Capt.
Bergmann records the news of the
German surrender and the end of
World War II at 3:00 a.m. on
May 7, 1945.
Its rightful place: Returning to the
War Room in 1995, Ted Bergmann
'37 replaces the ashtray that he had
taken as a souvenir 50 years earlier.
end. On the wall in the War Room, which
now is a museum enshrined in glass, was a
large photograph of the signing ceremony,
and Bergmann saw that he was clearly visi-
ble in the picture. "I turned to a custodian
in the museum and tried to explain that I
wanted some postcards of that photograph.
In trying to make him understand, I pointed
to myself in the picture and said, 'C'est moi,
c'est moi!' (It's me!)"
"The custodian became very excited,
probably because no one who had been pre-
sent at the signing had ever been back to
the War Room," Bergmann recalls, adding
that "most of the men present then were
probably in their fifties, and would now —
if they were still alive — be over 100 years
old." The custodian asked Bergmann for his
name and address so that the museum
could invite him to the 50th anniversary
celebration of the signing in 1995.
In March of 1995, unbeknownst to
Bergmann, his wife began making
inquiries about the planned celebration,
especially since they had not received an
invitation. Contacting the city hall in
Reims, however, Beverly was met with
some unexpected suspicion. The Minister
of Culture's office asked for some verifica-
tion of Bergmann's claim to being present
at the signing. Beverly then faxed several
documents to Reims — still without her
husband's knowledge — and was reward-
ed with an invitation to be a guest of the
government for the anniversary event. In
the process, the Bergmanns learned that
"there were a lot of people calling and
claiming to have been present at the sign-
ing, and the city discovered that none of
them were legitimate," Bergmann says.
Bergmann found his "15 minutes of
fame" at the May celebration, where
"we were wined and dined for three
days." In addition to reviewing the French
and American troops marching before the
Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, he was treated as a
celebrity and interviewed by
American and French televi-
sion and newspapers.
He says a highlight of
the trip was the commemora-
tion of the signing in the War
Room with U.S. Ambassador
Pamela Harriman and the
mayor of Reims. Bergmann,
honored there as the only sur-
viving witness to the official surrender, sur-
prised his hosts by presenting the museum
with the photographs and recordings he
had made of the surrender. He also pre-
sented the museum with something else: a
small, porcelain ashtray that he had taken
from the conference table as a souvenir 50
years earlier. Seeing this, Ambassador
Harriman replied in mock horror, "You
stole it and it took you 50 years to give it
back?!"
"It's very difficult to believe that it all
happened 50 years ago," Bergmann says.
"If I hadn't gone back," he says, "it might
have been different. But returning to Reims
brought all the memories and emotions
flooding back as if it had all happened
yesterday." ^o
16 The Archon - Fall 1995
26 states and two foreign countries returned to their high school alma mater
for Reunion '95 weekend, June 9, 10 and 11. Reunioners gathered together Friday evening
for cocktail parties and the Governor's Buffet before meeting again at the evening gathering and
individual class parties.
Saturday morning's festivities
kicked off with the 15th Annual
Reunion Pie Race. Eleven runners
participated in the five-mile race, won
by faculty member Peter Southam.
Other top finishers were last year's
winner, faculty member and race
organizer David Abusamra and Matt
Tomlinson '80.
Old Guard Alumni: (from left) Phil Simpson '39,
Harry Churchill '33, Buster Navins '31 and Don
Stockwell '39.
After the race, reunioners turned
out in strength for two informational
sessions. The first was a well-received
panel discussion called "GDA
Through the Eyes of its Students," in
which one graduating senior and three
juniors shared their experiences.
Headmaster Peter Bragdon, Academic
Dean Brian Lenane and Business
Manager Dick Savage then offered a
progress report on the new library and
mathematics-science center.
Following the discussions,
Alumni /ae Council President Art
Veasey '68 and Vice President Karen
Gronberg '83 presented individual and
class awards at the annual meeting of
alumni /ae. Richard Cousins '45
received the Alumnus of the Year
Award. The Reunion Class Bowl was
accepted by Tim Greene and David
Yesair in recognition for the Class of
1950's total contribution of $28,449. For
the Class of 1945, Donald Palais
accepted the Reunion Class Bowl,
which was awarded for his class'
91.89% participation in the Annual
Fund. The highlight for many was the
recognition for Buster Navins '31 as
the oldest alumnus in attendance.
The meeting was followed by the
Annual Alumni /ae Glee Club Concert,
under the direction of Old Guardsmen
Art Sager and Ben Stone, and featuring
performances by Al Chase '45, Denis
Golden '62, Irv Williamson '45 and the
Meistersingers, led by Clark Neily '37.
The concert was crowned with all
And they're off...: The start of the annual Pie Race.
Tlte Big Show: Alumni /ae join together in Mosley
Chapel for the Annual Alunmi/ae Glee Club
Concert.
alumni /ae joining the Glee Club in an
emotional rendition of "The Senior
Song" before moving outside for the
Parade of Classes. After the parade,
lunch was served in the Jacob Dining
Hall, while the Class of '45 and Old
Guard Alumni joined the Bragdons at
the Mansion House for a champagne
luncheon. Saturday's events were
rounded out by cocktails and class pic-
tures at the Pescosolido Field House
and the first — and possibly annual —
"GDA Dinner/ Dance Extravaganza"
in Alumni Gymnasium.
On Sunday, reunioners gathered
once more for the farewell brunch
before bidding old friends goodbye
and promising to return to GDA for
Reunion 2000.
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Captain's solo: Denis Golden '62 performs a song
from H.M.S. Pinafore during the Alumni/ae Glee
Club concert.
Class of 1945: First row (L-R):
David Graham, Dick Cousins,
Keith Johnson, Edwin Hubbard,
Stephen Bean. Second row (L-R):
Irv Williamson, Don Palais, Bob
Steinert, Warren Furth, John
Gillies, Allan Feel, Bots Young,
Brad Alden. Fhird row (L-R):
Bob Scribner, Sy Symonds, Fom
Atkins, Stan Hamel, Leon Noyes.
Class of 1960: John Elwell and Jim Deveney
CLASS OF
I960
Dedicated alumnus: Dick Cousins '45 accepts the
Alumnus/a of the Year Award from Alumni Council
President Art Veasey '68 as Headmaster Bragdon
looks on.
Class of 1980: First row (L-R): Chris Stafford, John Fain, Matt Fomlinson. Second row
(L-R): Carl Schwartz, Pam Welch, Jeff Bailly, Kevin Callahan, Jim Gardner.
18 The Archon - Fall 1995
Shopping spree: Charlie
Boiven '50 and his wife Calvine
take a moment to examine
GDA merchandise.
Class of 1955: First row (L-R): Bill Spence, Rick Sears, Roger Tompkins, Chris Beebe. Second row
(L-R): Dan Leaty, David Rolfe, Peter Littlefield, Peter Haendler. Third row (L-R): Fred Scribner, Bill
Friend, Peter Scott, Alan Keith, Tom Wende.
Old Guard in charge: Art Sager conducts the
Alumni/ae Glee Club Concert.
Class of 1970: First row (L-R): Adam Levin, Jay James,
Tom Price, Henry Eaton, James Brown. Second row (L-
R): Richard Welch, John Stichnoth, Michael Franchot,
Martin Hillsgrove, Randy Whitney. Third row (L-R):
John Newman, Michael O'Leary, Barkley Simpson, Bill
Murray, John Cutler.
Class of 1965: First row (L-R): Jeff Kane, Eric Shepard,
Ken Linberg. Second row (L-R): Mark Starr, Alton Brody,
William Russell, John Hoyden, Arnold Morton. Third
row (L-R): Dudley Glover, Tony Knapp, David Sullivan.
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Class of 1990: First row (L-R): John Leivis, David Smith, Paul
Salemme, Don Conley, Jeff Leggette. Second row (L-R): Andy Baird,
Kristen Morgan, Kerry Campbell, Eric Lacroix, Nick Vachon, David
Johnson. Third roiv (L-R): Molly Jerabek, Katherine DiNanno,
Danielle Kealler, Jodi Packard, Kate Fyrberg, Joe Crowley.
Class of 1985: First row (L-R): Tony Fusco, Peter Condon, Sean
Mahoney, Ben Armstrong, Jessica Gould, Katrina Russo Ramsey, Peter
Quimby. Second row (L-R): Diane Frangos Walsh, Lisa Demeri,
Nathalie Ames, Rachel Ardito-Barletta, George Hasapides. Third row
(L-R): Michael Terrile, Jon Nesbit, Andy Menyhart, Jeff Taft, Victoria
DeLisle Blanks, Doug Kirk, Jeff Kelly.
Class of 1950: First row
(L-R): Dick McCoy, Bob
Comey, Alan Flynn, Charlie
Bowen, Mai Robertson,
Marc am Rliein. Second
row (L-R): Charlie Cashin,
Jack Little, Len Starbird,
Art Withington, Peter
Steinwedell, Peter Smith,
George Tulloch. Third row
(L-R): Peter Gavian, Willy
Nordwind.
A time for smiles: (from left) Brad Roberts '45 and his
wife Chickie, Dru and Paid Withington '45 and Carol
Mantall and Homer Gibbs '44.
Class of 1975: First row (L-R): Craig McConnell, Audrey
Grant, Barbara Pierce, Victoria Jones, Wendy O'Brien, Joel
Narva. Second row (L-R): Sam Gilliland, Kingsley Goddard,
Derek Bergtnann with daughter Kendall, Peter Riclwrdson,
Rob Kaplan, Craig Clark, Jay Taggart.
20 The Archon- Fall 1995
by Aimee Walsh Schade '84
Education:
H
H
"Oooh, oooh, Mrs. Schade," an
eager voice calls out, "I want to read
my creative writing to the class today.
Please, let it be my turn!" I stand in
the middle of rows of desks filled
with middle school children who are
eager, excited, challenged and enthu-
siastic about learning. I feel the
remarkable joys of being an educator;
the pleasure that is born from being a
witness to young minds expanding.
The eager student
gets up and charges to
the front of the
classroom. Little
does he know
that this class-
room is a micro-
cosm of the world. What
he can achieve and over-
come and learn in room
307 is what he will take
with him for life. I smile at
his enthusiasm, and find
time for a momentary reflec-
tion: "\ hope he never loses his
eager zest for life. What a risk-taker."
He proceeds to read a won-
derful and insightful story chronicling
the life of his great-grandfather. The
small, confident and bright boy
concludes his paper with some
sweeping statements about leadership
and commitment. Receiving a round
of affectionate, supportive and right-
fully deserved applause, he takes his
seat. "Oooh, oooh, Mrs. Schade,
can I go next?" resounds around me
as the others want their turn.
I went into education pre-
cisely because I wanted to give to oth-
ers what my teachers had so
generously and selflessly given to me.
At the end of fifth grade, my father
decided that it was time for me to be
exposed to the type of education that
he had enjoyed — classical, challeng-
ing and in the liberal arts tradition.
Thus, in sixth grade I began attending
a private school in Massachusetts.
Throughout my four years there, I
studied Latin, read Shakespeare, stud-
ied French and played sports. Yet the
curriculum was more than the titles
read and the goals reached. The cur-
riculum taught us how to be whole,
well-rounded human beings by being
part of a community.
I began as a sophomore at
Governor Dummer Academy. While
the seeds of values and commu-
nity had been planted within me at
my grammar school, I was challenged
in deeper ways as a Governor
Dummer student. Living among the
faculty, my peers, the staff and fami-
The Archon - Fall 1995 21
lies taught me that education truly
takes place in many areas other than
the classroom. While an idea may
have been born in my morning
English class, we were still discussing
or debating it by dinner time. There
were no boundaries to learning, and
class discussion did not end when the
bell did. We were continuously learn-
ing and exploring ideas.
The beauties of a Gover-
nor Dummer education and
lifestyle were what propelled me
to enter the field of education.
At GDA, I learned what it means
to be a member of a community
— a community of learners,
teachers and human beings. 1
remember being injured and unable to
participate in a lacrosse game my
sophomore year. Though I was disap-
pointed that I could not play, I
assumed that the team would play
well in spite of my absence. I watched
and cheered my teammates from the
sidelines. The team did play well, but
I could see that they did not play the
same without me. The timing was dif-
ferent. The moves were noticeably
new and somewhat unpolished. What
I realized in that very instant was that
I mattered to the overall success of the
team and that they depended upon
me. I knew that they could win with-
out me (and they did!), but until that
moment, I had not recognized the true
importance of what I had to offer the
team. My overall experience at
Governor Dummer, be it on the play-
ing field, in the classroom or in the
dormitory, taught me the value, worth
and power of each human being. We
are all interdependent members of
small communities which ultimately,
become one. We need all of the parts
to function effectively.
22 The Archon - Fall 1995
With this understanding has
come a deep desire to make a differ-
ence in the lives of others. My own
education has proven to be one of the
greatest gifts in my life. Learning how
to question, to interact with informa-
tion and to utilize insightful ideas are
my keys to an active intellectual and
personal life. With this vision and a
great deal of unbridled enthusiasm
and desire, I began my teaching
career. I was fueled by my dream to
inspire my students to be all that they
could be, intellectually, spiritually and
personally.
I took my first job at a high
school which was part of the San
Francisco Unified School District. At
the time, I was in graduate school
completing my master's degree in lit-
erature and writing. I was learning all
sorts of innovative ways to teach
poetry and literature and, eager to
apply them, began with Walt
Whitman. That very first day, I was
shocked to discover that many stu-
dents in my class did not even know
the definition of a sentence, let alone
understand a poetic stanza. Thus
began the process of a slow and
painful awakening to the realities that
exist in today's public schools. The
students I was teaching were,
with just cause, more con-
cerned with survival questions
rather than literary ones. Many
of them came from public hous-
ing projects and had to cross
"gang territory" to reach the
school. Many of their parents
were absent from their lives,
were on drugs or were busy
working all the time to make
ends meet. The students were
essentially raising themselves
and each other.
After a series of home visits
and meetings with parents, guardians,
relatives and older siblings, I discov-
ered that education was not a top prior-
ity in the home life of any of my
students. What was valued was eco-
nomic contribution. Reading and writ-
ing were not modeled in their homes.
School was a place to go, but not really
to grow. What became apparent to me
was that school was a place apart, a
place these students must legally go.
The link between parents, children and
the school sharing the responsibilities
and joys of educating the children was
non-existent. It was basically impossi-
ble to build a community around the
values of an education, because educa-
tion itself was not revered.
Growing is what my education
has been predicated upon. Growing on
all levels — expanding myself as a
thinking and creative being — is what
drives me. I was aware then, of the true
gifts and privileges my educational
experiences have afforded me. While
these students were concerned about
being shot on the way to school, I had
been ambling to the dining hall to enjoy
breakfast with friends and faculty.
While my students would write
their creative pieces on topics
such as "I Hope that I Live to be
18 Years Old," I had been writing
poetry with friends in front of the
Phillips Building. While I had been
given moments in which to relish
in the joys of thinking, my stu-
dents were wracked with images
of violence, from not only the
television, but from their own
backyards.
In retrospect, it is easy to
romanticize my high school years. This
is not my intention. Adolescence is a
turbulent time, one of great upheaval
and questioning for all students, no
matter where they go to school.
However, my gratitude comes with
having had the privilege to go
through my adolescent process with-
out such intense and complicated
social, even primal fears. At Governor
Dummer, my life was essentially a
cohesive entity. Academics, social
development, athletic competition,
spiritual inquisition and communal
living, though intensely challenging at
times, were all mutually reinforcing
the other. The result was a safe,
dependable community in which to
explore and live life, on all of its levels
— a result with various benefits that I
am still enjoying today.
I continued to work in the
public school system at both the high
and middle school levels for two and
a half years. Not only was I continu-
ally saddened by the lack of intellec-
tual curiosity in my students, I was
stunned by the bureaucratic structure
which, instead of promoting educa-
tion, actually hindered the process.
The schools were governed by the
members of the board who worked on
the other side of town. The principal
and other administrators were far
from autonomous in making decisions
that affected the lives of their stu-
dents. In fact, the principal was not
free to hire the candidate of his choice
when a teaching position opened.
Teachers were sent to the school from
the board, often on the first day of
school. Thus, it was difficult to match
the teaching philosophies and desires
of the faculty. Cooperation among the
faculty was hit or miss, the luck of the
draw. The result was a rather isolated
group of individuals who ate lunch
behind their locked classroom doors.
The locked doors were an unfortunate
necessity, as some of the sixth graders
had been found in possession of guns
on campus. It broke my spirit that
children could no longer be children,
that in the definition of childhood it
seemed to be an unwritten premise
that no one could be depended upon
for protection. If you were to make it,
it was up to you. My lesson learned
from watching my teammates play
lacrosse without me, that we are all
interdependent, actually had a new
dimension added to it. Interdepen-
dence is only acceptable as a way of
life when all involved consent to com-
mon values. Governor Dummer
taught me about integrity, honesty,
discipline, honor, commitment, ser-
vice and giving to others in all areas
of my life. While I was successful in
infusing these values into my school,
the progress was slow. I had the stu-
dents for 40 minutes a day, five days a
week, and their worlds had them the
rest of the time.
While some moments were
fulfilling, I can honestly say that most
of the time, I felt like a lone woman
on a sinking vessel. Slowly, but surely,
I was going down. My morale was
low, and I realized that it was not nec-
essarily that my students did not want
what I had to give, it was that many
of them did not know how to want
what I had to give. The majority of the
students' thoughts were along the
lines of "Why begin to invest in my
life, intellectually, academically and
personally, when the threat of losing it
tomorrow is greater than any other
driving force within me?" I, in turn,
was frustrated and felt alone, cut off
from my initial vision of creating edu-
cational experiences and a community
feeling that would last a lifetime. I
was up against unforeseen horrors;
drive-by shootings, gangs, violence,
depression and a lack of community
commitment to change.
My principal, other faculty
members and my husband helped me
to see that my efforts were not in vain.
They pointed to the glimmers of light
when I was looking solely for the
rays. One week I came down with the
flu. Midweek, three of my stu-
dents begged another faculty
member to call me at home so
that they could tell me that they
missed me — an unforgettably
enriching moment. It occurred
to me that I was more of a sur-
rogate parent to them. While I
know that modeling and being a men-
tor for students is part of the educa-
tional process, I also wanted to affect
the students on a literary level. I
wanted to inspire poetic thoughts and
to instill a love of literature within
each of them. For me, English was an
intriguing subject in which many liter-
ary characters made my mistakes for
me, answered my life-questions and
were some of my greatest teachers. I
wanted to teach literature.
Though my time at those two
schools did have their redeeming and
fulfilling moments, I was not fulfilled.
I had gone into education for the love
of the mind and to teach to the whole
person. Granted, Governor Dummer
is not the norm, but it is my norm and
my experiences have set my stan-
dards. I constantly compared the
experiences I had as a student with
those experiences that my students
were having. Frustrated by the fact
that I was one, yet only one, human
being fighting an army of social
plights, I consented to the fact that in
this system, I was expected to be more
of a social worker than an educator. I
The Archon - Fall 1995 23
Aimee Walsh Schade '84, shown here with her husband HA. Schade 111,
was graduated from Boston College in 1990, and later received a master's
degree in literature from the University of California at San Diego. She
plans to seek a doctorate in psychology or education. She and her hus-
band live in San Francisco.
knew that I had given more than I
ever thought I had to give and was
drained. I had seen other teachers
who were effective in school settings
such as the one I was working in, and
when I was honest with myself, I rec-
ognized that such a setting was not a
place which would utilize the gifts
and talents I had to offer. By now, not
only was I longing to be part of an
educational community, I was craving
to give back what Governor Dummer
had instilled in me. I also longed to be
a part of a cohesive faculty that
worked together and with parents to
educate the children. I began to ques-
tion my ideals and wonder if they
were too high. I questioned my place
in the public educational system and
my effectiveness as a teacher. Was I
simply an idealist, or could I find a
place that valued what I did and was
interested in creating educational
experiences and moments based in
shared values, expectations and com-
munity beliefs?
24 The Archon - Fall 1995
I had visited enough
classrooms to see that I
was not the only one
experiencing these
frustrations, concerns
and questions. What I
did see that really
frightened me was the
compromising of stan-
dards. I continually
struggled to raise my
students' personal,
academic and intellec-
tual standards, as well
as find ways to create
community and oppor-
tunities for them.
Starting a school news-
paper and a home-
work club were small
successes for both my morale and the
motivated students. However, many
students were reluctant to stay after
school for fear that they would lose
the protection that traveling home in
large numbers provided. I could not
live comfortably with the gap
between my community and educa-
tional ideals and the reality of the stu-
dents' lives. I began to realize that I
would be more effective in a smaller,
community-oriented school such as
Governor Dummer. I wanted to bring
my vision for education to life and
found that I was not having the kind
of effect I intended.
Today I am teaching at the
private St. Philips School and have
found the community and parental
support I find necessary to productive
education. The difference between the
public and private systems is disturb-
ing. Much has been written about the
inequities that exist, but that is
another article. My work has been,
and will continue to be, about
trying to bring more of what
works in the private schools into
the public school system. While I
no longer work in a public
school, I am still in a position to
institute such changes. I have
not finished my work.
My current private school is
the setting in which my students
eagerly jump up to read their creative
writing. The school is based on a code
of ethics similar to that of Governor
Dummer's. I enjoy being a teacher, an
educator, a member of a community
and an inspiration to children. I derive
a tremendous amount of satisfaction
from creating intellectual, social and
personal moments, experiences and
opportunities for my students. I
lament the fact that all children do not
have the precious and priceless oppor-
tunity to enjoy education on a truly
meaningful and life-impacting level.
While I willingly recognize that a
Governor Dummer education is truly a
privilege and not the norm, it was, and
continues to be, a large part of who I
am, what I strive to be and who I am
continually becoming. I do not take
my education for granted but rather
am grateful for it and to those parents
and faculty who gave me the gifts, the
peaceful moments in which I learned
how to learn. I embody the meaning of
my years at GDA and strive to impart
the values, ethics and community
responsibilities to my students both in
and out of the classroom. My teachers
at Governor Dummer held me to val-
ues and believed in me when I, an
unsure adolescent, was searching.
Armed with the memories and ideals
of my Governor Dummer experiences,
I will stay in education a little longer,
touching a few more lives and believ-
ing in students until they can do it
themselves.
Delighting in Discovery
Faculty Baccalaureate Address
by Sally C. Jarrett
"Wliy are all the students leaving?"
"Where are they going?"
"What's a graduation?"
Through the eyes of a three-year-old, GDA is
a very confusing, very mysterious place. My
pre-school daughter, Lindsay, is forever try-
ing to solve the riddles of this campus. Why boys
and girls sometimes like to hold hands. Why she
can't come to school here. Why her Grammy and
Grampy don't eat in a dining hall and live in a
dormitory. Delightful, impish and inquisitive, this
young mind works tirelessly trying to piece
together all the people, places and things that
impact her on a daily basis.
For me, as a relatively new parent, the past
three years have been a fascinating time, full of
surprises that come with raising children. And
now, as I bear witness to the growing process of a
pre-schooler, I make notable discoveries each and
every day about her development. Imagination,
fascination, determination and fear all abound in
this three-year-old as she figures out what a
stranger is, tries to understand why the hyenas
from The Lion King won't "get" her while she is
sleeping, wonders where heaven is and, when
looking at her mommy's and daddy's wedding
photographs, struggles to comprehend why she
isn't in them, too. As she makes each new discov-
ery, she is delighted and proud and eager to share'
what she has learned with anyone who will listen.
There is a very clear method to this learn-
ing process. A child learns through experience -
by watching, imitating and experimenting - and
by asking questions - lots of them. This child of
mine questions everything. She questions things
that are unanswerable. She questions things that
are unexplainable. She questions every person,
every conversation, every move I make and even
every move that you make. Her curiosity is both
intense.. .and exhausting.
And truly just as striking as her sense of
curiosity is her sense of fashion. She has an inter-
esting eye for style and spends a great amount of
time piecing together her outfits. The staples of her
wardrobe - Cinderella underwear, tights, jelly
shoes, pink headband - present few problems at
all and go on each morning with ease. The dress,
however, is an entirely different story. Each morn-
ing, she empties her drawers and sorts through
her dresses, looking for that special dress that will
make her look and feel like a princess on her way
to an evening ball. Once she has selected the dress,
she pulls it over her head, then moves on to per-
form a "twirling" test. This test is simply just a
quick spin or two. While she twirls, she checks the
dress for its lift and flare. The higher the lift and
fuller the flare, the better.
If the twirl is to her satisfaction, then the
dress remains. If not, it's over the head and off,
and on to the next one. As you can imagine, this
procedure causes an inordinate amount of stress
on her mother each morning, especially as
the clock inches its way towards 7:45. At
this time, I am in a frenzied panic, fighting
against time, and she is running around
naked or half dressed, still searching for the
dress with the perfect spin.
Once recently, as Lindsay rode her
bike in front of Moody, she spotted a
female student walking on a path towards
Frost. This girl was very neatly and styl-
ishly dressed: a nice green sweater, short
black skirt, black shoes and long black knee
socks - socks that climbed to not just the
knee, but up to the thigh.
There was something about this
image that was very disturbing, but also
intriguing, to this three-year-old.
Something was just not quite right. With
her mind aimbling with activity, curiosity
ready to explode, she began to fire away
the questions.
"Mom, mom, who's that girl?"
"She's a student, Lindsay."
"Wliat is she wearing on her legs?"
"Those are called knee socks."
"Why are they called knee socks?"
"Because they're socks that go to the knees."
"But, where did her knees go?"
"Well, they're under the knee socks."
"But, why?"
"Weil, so her knees won't get cold."
"Oh, so her knees will he warm."
"That's right."
"But, won't her bottom get cold?"
"Good question," I thought. "How do I
explain this to the mind of a young child?"
Not wanting to get into the notion of true
style and fashion, I blurted out a brief, but
very unsatisfactory response. Then silence
ensued as she wondered about disappear-
ing knees and cold bottoms.
This is how you, at one time,
learned. It was simple, but most educa-
tional, and certainly most rewarding. You
were born with an enormous amount of
natural and playful intrigue. Life began
with your listening, touching, tasting and
smelling everything around you to quench
your inescapable thirst for information and
knowledge. You thrived as you made each new
discovery - learning how to walk, saying your
first words, delighting in a game of "peek-a-boo."
Of course, now you are older, and the
questions you ask are of a different nature, and the
answers are not as easy to find. "What am I going
to be when I grow up" is suddenly a very real,
very complicated question that you may have to
ask yourself - and the answer may no longer be a
ballerina or a fireman. Now you wrestle with more
powerful issues that have more serious conse-
quences. Your questions, no longer naive, are far
more thoughtful and far more experienced. And
you have
learned
through
your educa-
tion that
asking ques-
tions is a
vital intel-
lectual skill,
necessary
for you to
exercise.
Sol
encourage
you, as you
move for-
ward, to
actively
engage your
mind and to
take advan-
tage of your
resources; to
ask appro-
priate ques-
tions and, if
need be, to
research the
answers;
and, so
importantly,
to recreate
the child in
you; and to
retain the
creativity
and
integrity of
your youth
as you enjoy
the days
ahead.
ED 17
Some final thoughts: Master English
teacher Sally C. jarrett offers a faculty
reflection for the Class of '95 at the
Baccalaureate.
Showing her talents: Ambrose Speaking
Contest and Special Prize winner Ksenija
Topic exhibits her oratory prowess.
Book prize: Lauren Carroll '96 accepts the
Columbia University Prize from
Headmaster Bragdon.
Tlie coveted bowl: Jacqueline Bean '95
accepts the Anne Marie Murphy Award
for the top female athlete from Headmaster
Bragdon.
Commencement Honors
continued from page 12
Piper A. Gore received the Whittemore
Award as "a member of the sophomore class
who, through attitude and perseverance, has
made the best contribution to the Academy."
Receiving the Wilkie Service Award,
named for former Headmaster Valleau Wilkie,
Jr., was Zeynep Guchan. She is attending George
Washington University this fall.
Junior Jeffrey R. LaBelle was named win-
ner of the Harvard Book Prize for his "high
scholarship, character and athletic or other con-
structive extracurricular achievement." LaBelle
also was named recipient of the Edmund
Coffin Colman Language Prize.
The Dartmouth College Book Award,
presented to "a junior who has been outstand-
ing in the study of English," was awarded to
Ariele Ebacher.
The Headmaster's Cup, which is "given
to that senior who, in the judgment of the
Headmaster, serves the mission of the school,"
was presented to Laura B. Barnes. She is attend-
ing Trinity College this year.
Laurie A. Carrier was awarded the
Alumni Association Award. The award is pre-
sented "...to a senior who has shown commu-
nity spirit and concern within the Academy
and has displayed qualities of awareness and
humanity."
The Academy's Special Prizes were
awarded to: Adam Paul Tagliamonte, Eric J.
Whither, Ksenija Topic, Amy M. Benedict, Casey C.
Barbaro, Myrtlean K. Stockdale, Gretchen E. Scliarfe
and Molly K. Scharfe.
The Memorial Mathematics Prize, given
to the junior who has been outstanding in that
subject, was presented to Raymond M. Long.
Naomi V. Odell was presented with the
Bausch & Lomb Medal as the "junior who has
been outstanding in the study of science."
Moody Kent Prizes recognize students
for their "outstanding achievement in each
department of study." This year's winners
were: English: Jacqueline A. Bean; History:
Jennifer E. Smyth; Mathematics: Sung Jin An;
Science: Amanda L. Harris; Music: Akinobu Sato;
French: Martha H. Mercer; Spanish: Myrtlean K.
Stockdale; German: Lindsey E. Swallow; Latin:
Matthew A. Dow; Art: Michael Angelis.
First-place in the Ambrose Speaking
Awards, for excellence in public speaking, was
awarded to Ksenija Topic. Second place honors
were presented to Lindsey E. Swallow. Gretchen
E. Scharfe placed third.
26 The Archon - Fall 1995
Commencement Address
continued from page 9
workers could have belayed the climbing rope for
me or given me her hand when I was slipping off
a steep slope."
A common metaphor for us as the end of
a climbing day is to ask, "Who is on belay for you
in your life? And for whom are you on belay?"
Being there for our family and friends and they
for us is the true essence of service, responsibility
and compassion. We find, through this, a greater
knowing of ourselves and who we are.
III. Now I want to address service,
responsibility and compassion in the world at
large. I feel very strongly about this and have
learned over the years that each of us can make
positive changes and that, in fact, we can change
the world.
The most important avenue to be effective
is to care, to have compassion for others. George
Bernard Shaw once said, 'The worst sin
toward our fellow creatures is not to
hate them but to be indifferent to them.
That's the essence of inhumanity."
I am impressed with the
Community Service program here at
Governor Dummer. You are making a
difference. You also see yourself through
the eyes of someone you have helped,
and thus learn more about you. We learn
about ourselves through others, whether
they be family, friends or those in the
community who take our extended
hand.
No matter what the issue, your
voice, your letter, your contribution of
time or dollars counts, especially when
combined with others. It is so important
that we give to the charities and causes
of our choice, even if it is one or five dol-
lars. This is a huge part of our responsi-
bility to our society, and our local
communities. The old ethic of women
volunteering and men giving money
needs to change so that all of us are vol-
unteering and all of us are giving finan-
cially.
Look around, don't be "lazy
eyed." Notice what needs doing in the
world. Read the paper. Listen to or
watch the news. Be mindful of the
tragedies in Bosnia, or in Boston or next
door. Those events affect us. They are a
part of the world we and your future
children live in. They are us.
Compassion means remembering
that "there but for the grace of God go
I." I, too, could have been born in
another place, another country, with dif-
ferent skin, in a different socioeconomic
group. We need better lives for all, a bet-
ter environment, improved education,
improved health care. Please, please
vote. It is our greatest privilege and
responsibility.
Baccalaureate Address
continued from page 9
woods, described by Philip Larkin in his poem
Tlie Trees:
Ttte Trees
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said:
Tire recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fidl-grown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
..
Milestones
Marriages
Virginia Bushell '80 and Christopher
Barnes; September 1994.
Kenneth Mahler '80 and Tami Lynn
Knapp; November 1994.
Cornelia McCarthy '80 and Richard
DeNey; March 4, 1995.
R. Keller Laros '81 and Wendy Comer;
June 3, 1995.
Kimberly Carey '86 and Dale Rochford;
August 5, 1995.
Andrew Eaton '86 and Paige Brennan;
May 27, 1995.
George Liss '86 and Meighan Deluke;
April 1995.
Christopher McMorris '87 and Marianne
Hendrie; September 30, 1995.
Carrie Walton '88 and Gregory Penner;
June 24, 1995.
Ingrid Eilertson '93 and Colin Cunney;
April 7, 1995.
Births
Born to Terri and Johnston Connelly '69,
a daughter, Sophie Porter; November 25,
1994.
Born to Lizabeth and Samuel Gilliland
'75, a daughter, Leigh Seeley; June 24,
1995.
Born to Geoffrey and Carolyn (Lyons)
Borwick '77, a daughter, Sarah Haviland;
June 9, 1995.
Born to James Spiegelman and Elizabeth
Kannan '77, a son, Jack; June 29, 1995.
Born to Karen and Bruce Tallman '80, a
son, Eric Bruce; June 12, 1995.
Born to Heather Corey and Robertson
Breed '81, a son, Elijah Corey; August 8,
1995.
Born to James and Tracey (Meehan)
O'Dea '81, a son, Conor Thomas; January
11, 1995.
Born to Nerissa Edwards and Alexander
Cawley '83, a son, Austin Levi; May 21,
1995.
Born to Suzanne and Bruce Turner '83, a
son, Bryce; March 12, 1995.
Born to Phillip and Roechelle (Smith)
Cannon '84, a son, Julian Christopher
Smith; April 3, 1995.
Born to Alan and Elizabeth (Kimball)
Williams '84, a son, Graham; March 1,
1995.
Born to Bruce and Pamela (Bostwick)
Coakley '86, a son, Jacob Daniel; April
18, 1994.
Deaths
Everett Ware Smith, class of 1932 and a
former member of the GDA Board of
Trustees, died August 20 at Hillcrest
Hospital in Mayfield Heights, OH. He
was 82. After attending Governor
Dummer Academy, he graduated from
the Moses Brown School and earned his
B.S. from Yale University in 1936. From
1936 through 1946, he served in the
Marine Corps, reaching the rank of lieu-
tenant colonel. In 1954, he joined the New
England Merchants Bank and was Vice
Chairman of its board of directors from
1964 until 1968, when he became
Chairman of the Board of Union
Commercial Bank in Cleveland. The fol-
lowing year, he became President of the
Cleveland Trust Co. and was Chairman
of its board of directors from 1971 until
his retirement in 1978. Mr. Smith served
on the board of directors of the North
American Coal Co., National Bank
Americard, Inc., The Higbee Co., and
Midland Mutual Insurance Co. He also
served on the board of trustees of the
Cleveland Trust Realty Investors, the
Musical Arts Association and The Winsor
School. He is survived by his wife Ruth
(Tyler); two sons, Nathaniel T Smith of
Cleveland Heights, OH, and J. Hale
Smith of Milton, MA; two daughters,
Pamela S. Henrickson and Karen
Melican, both of Wellesley, MA; and nine
grandchildren. A memorial service was
held at St. Christophers-By-The-River
Episcopal Church in Gates Mills, OH.
Spencer H. Brewster, class of 1939, died
August 12 in Plymouth, MA. He was 74.
He graduated from Plymouth High
School in 1938 before attending Governor
Dummer Academy, Williams College and
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Brewster was Vice President
of the Plymouth Cordage Company for
25 years, Vice President of the Columbian
Rope Co. for four years and was the
founder and former owner of the Agway
store in Plymouth. During World War II,
Brewster served as a captain in the Army
Air Corps. He was a member and former
chairman of the Plymouth School
Committee for 17 years and a longtime
member of the Plymouth Town Meeting.
A 10th generation descendant of the
Mayflower Pilgrims, he was the Vice
President of the Elder Brewster Society,
trustee of the Pilgrim Society and a for-
mer chairman of the parish committee of
the Unitarian Parish, Universalist Society
He also served as a trustee for the
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank and
the Eel River Beach Club. Brewster was
the founding Chairman of American
Driving Society, a member of the
Carriage Association of America and the
Myopia Driving Club, as well as many
other equestrian groups. He is survived
by his wife Marietta (Withington); a son,
Spencer H. Brewster, Jr., '65, of Haddam
Neck, CT; five daughters, Anne Keller of
Plymouth, Marietta Brockman of
Guadalajara, Mexico, Sarah Tompkins of
Rowley, MA, Patricia Gregg of
Skaneateles, NY, and Katharyn DeLuca of
Barnstable, MA; two brothers, William S.
Brewster and Benjamin B. Brewster '43,
both of Plymouth; two sisters, Lois Smith
of Plymouth and Lydia Toll of Denver;
twelve grandchildren; and two great-
grandchildren. A memorial service was
held on August 16 at the First Parish
church in Plymouth. Expressions of sym-
pathy may be made to the First Parish
Restoration Fund, Town Square,
Plymouth, MA 02360 or Cranberry
Hospice, 161 Main Street, Kingston, MA
02364.
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Milestones
continued from page 2 7
Peter Wiles, class of 1946, died July 6 at
his home in Skaneateles, NY. He was 67.
After graduating from Governor
Dummer Academy, he attended
Syracuse University before starting his
first career as a developer of golf
courses. He developed Tecumseh
Country Club and Winter Sports Center
in Syracuse, the North Shore Country
Club in Cleveland and the Horisant Ski
House and Conference Center in Lvons
Falls. In 1968, he founded Mid-Lakes
Navigation Co., Ltd., which delivered
mail and served meals on Skaneateles
Lake. The company expanded so that it
now provides cruises along Onondaga
Lake and the New York state canals,
including the Erie, Champlain and
Oswego. Wiles also created an edu-
cational program about the canals
for school children in Syracuse and
Rochester. To date, more than
135,000 students have participated.
He published Running Lights, an
annual newspaper on the canals,
and a guide to the canal district. He
also produced a documentary com-
paring the histories of canals in
Britain and the United States. In
1991, Wiles was named Skaneateles
Citizen of the Year. He was the
founder of the New York State Tour
Boat Association and a member of
the Onondaga County Antique
Dealers Association, the New York
State Canal Planning and
Development Board, the New York
State Centennial Canal Committee and
the Steamship Historical Society. He was
also the Director of the Finger Lakes
Association and President of the New
York State Council on Waterways. He is
survived by his wife Harriet; three
daughters, Sarah Wiles Ehmann, Hattie
Beck- Andersen and Libby Wiles, all of
Skaneateles; two sons, Peter Wiles, Jr.
and Daniel Wiles, both of Skaneateles; a
brother, Ben Wiles of Cedarvale, NY; a
sister, Edith Ann Bradford, of Illinois;
and five grandchildren.
William B. Ardiff, class of 1955 and secre-
tary of the Governor Dummer Academy
Board of Trustees for 23 years, died June
29 after a brief illness. He was 58. After
graduating from Governor Dummer, he
earned a baccalaureate degree from
Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Cornell
University and an LL.M. in taxation from
Boston University After being admitted
to the bar in 1962, he began his law prac-
tice as the founding partner of Ardiff,
Ardiff & Morse in Danvers,
Massachusetts. In 1986, he began a gen-
eral practice from his offices in Danvers
in association with Tinti, Quinn & Savoy
of Salem, Massachusetts. In recent years,
he was a small business consultant and
spent winters at a home in Naples, FL.
He was elected to the Governor Dummer
William B. Ardiff
Academy Board of Trustees in 1972 and
served as Board Secretary from 1972 until
his death. He also served on the Endicott
College board of trustees and was at vari-
ous times President of the Danvers
Rotary Club, the Danvers Historical
Society, the Salem Bar Association and
the North Shore Dartmouth Club. In
addition, he was a director of the
Danvers Community Y.M.C.A., an incor-
porator of the Danvers Savings Bank and
the former district governor of Rotary
International. He is survived by his wife
Susan (Foy) Ardiff, and his brother
Ralph E. Ardiff, Jr., of Danvers, class of
1958. On July 19th, the Governor
Dummer community joined with the
Ardiff family and friends to celebrate his
life at a memorial service held in the
Moseley Chapel. Donations may be
made in his memory to Governor
Dummer Academy or the Danvers
Communitv Y.M.C.A.
James Cook Pramberg, class of 1974, died
suddenly on July 3 in New Orleans, LA.
He was born on November 15, 1955, in
Newburyport, MA. After graduating
from Governor Dummer Academy,
where he was the 1974 Morse Hag win-
ner, he graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1978 and Tulane Medical
School in 1983. A resident of New
Orleans for 16 years, he was a
member and senior warden of St.
Anna's Episcopal Church there.
Pramberg was a staff physician at
both the Pediatric HIV Clinic at
Charity Hospital (New Orleans)
and the Tulane /Louisiana State
Universitv AIDS Clinical Trials
Unit. He was an assistant professor
of clinical pediatrics at Tulane
University Medical School, partici-
pated in eight clinical trials of med-
icines and vaccines to fight AIDS in
women and children, was a mem-
ber of the Episcopal Diocese of
Louisiana's Commission on HIV
Infection and served on the board
of the March of Dimes of New
Orleans. He spent much of his time
working in state public health units
doing follow-up care for children with-
out insurance and in a child sexual abuse
unit. He specialized in the post-natal care
of infants born to HIV-positive mothers.
He is survived by his parents, Noreen E.
(Cook) and John H. Pramberg, Jr. of
Newburyport, MA; and two brothers,
John W. Pramberg of Newburyport, and
Jay P Pramberg of Newton, NH. A
funeral service was held on July 8 at St.
Anna's Episcopal Church in New
Orleans. Contributions in his memory
may be made to the general scholarship
fund of Governor Dummer Academv.
28 The Archon - Fall 1995
Class Notes
pre-
39
Harold H. Audet
Secretary
511 Crocker Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA
93950
(408) 373-5652
Warren Lane '27 missed the Reunion last
spring because of what he describes as an
exotic tour of France. He went to Paris
and then drove to Niece with side trips to
many small towns en route. ▼ A few
years ago Russ Hamilton '27 had a
cataract removed from his right eye and a
lens implanted. This year he had a
cataract removed from his left eye. All is
well with him now from the vision stand-
point. ▼ Although Ward Fearnside '31 has
retired from college teaching, he continues
to write on current affairs. He is also
revising a textbook on logic. Last spring
he attended his 60th reunion at Bowdoin
College, and used his bicycle as his means
of transportation from Wellesley to
Brunswick, ME. He has recently been
inducted into the Hall of Fame, Wellesley
Chapter. ▼ Bill Gove '32 is suffering from
Alzheimeris Disease, but remains in gen-
eral good health. Bill and Anne have
moved into a retirement home in Concord,
NH. T In an earlier issue of The Archon, I
wrote that Jack Cushman '32 was plan-
ning an extensive trip to the far east. The
trip came off as planned with visits to
China, South Korea, Siberia and Japan.
While in Yokohama, he played in a golf
tournament and won first prize, a five-day
trip to Maui. T Tom Willins '38 continues
to live in Bridgton, ME, and he is active
and healthy. As a bit of an historical note,
Tom was editor of The Archon during his
senior year at GDA. T Fred Davis '34 is
living about 30 miles east of Palm Springs,
in the city of Palm Desert, CA. Daytime
temperatures in the summer are usually
well over 100 degrees and Fred enjoys the
heat. T In 1994, Howard Peck '34 had
back surgery and a hip replacement. He is
doing well after a long period of physio-
therapy and plans on a prolonged visit to
Ohio. T Ben Busch '34 continues his long
time interest in classical music and has
been engaged by the Palm Beach Opera
Company to sing in the 1995-96 season.
He lives in Lake Worth, FL, and continues
to work in the retail end of the music
industry. T Dudley Follansbee '36 took
early retirement about 20 years ago. Since
then he has lived in South Harpswell, ME,
and is active in sailing and downhill ski-
ing. Dud founded a company that made
plastic products and several of their
products were used on the first moonland-
ing. t Rupe Neily '36 of East Boothbay,
ME, has been re-elected as Treasurer of
Lincoln County, and is also a member of
the Board of Directors of the National
Association of Exclusive Buyers Agents.
The members of this association are spe-
cialists in buyer home purchase services. ▼
Ed Warner '38 reports that all is well in the
high desert of California. The spring
weather was moderate with only a week
or two of temperatures of over 100
degrees. For excitement, they had a major
fire in the area, and at one point Ed and his
family were alerted to evacuate their
home. He continues to play golf and await
the next big earthquake in southern
California. Ed and I consider these rare
quakes to be less of a problem than the
routine hurricanes of Florida. T Harold
Audet '38, a volunteer researcher at the
Monterey Maritime Museum, has com-
pleted a listing of all ships that have been
named Monterey. The big problem in this
project will be to get more data on a
schooner of that name that ran the Union
Navy blockades during the War of 1861-65.
The only available data on this ship is a
listing of it as one that was captured in the
Chesapeake Bay in 1862.
Ward Fearnside '31
Bikes to Fame
Ward Fearnside '31 pedalled his
way to his to his 60th college reunion and
into the Wellesley, Massachusetts Ht
Fame.
The 145-mile trip to Bowdoin
College in Brunswick, ME, began at
Fearnside 's home in Wellesley, MA, on
the morning of May 31. He was in
Newburyport by 1 p.m., but not without
first making a stop at Governor Dummer
Academy.
To Harold Audet '38, he wrote,
"I rode through Governor Dummer,
stopped to look around a bit at the cam-
pus and the co-eds, both improvements
over my Class of '31 day. " He spent the
evening at a good restaurant and reading.
After another early start, he arrived in
Falmouth, ME, at 6 p.m. the following
evening. The next morning, he had a
mere 18 miles left to Brunswick. Of the
trip, a repeat of the trek he made to his
50th reunion, he said, "I had good
weather with no headwinds. It zvasn't
that difficult. Recently I climbed Mount
Lafayette, which is 4,000 feet. Now, that
was difficult."
A return to GDA: James F. Huxtable '33 visits the
GDA campus with his wife this spring for the first
time since his graduation.
39
Donald W. Stockwell
Secretary
8 Country Hill
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(802) 254-5504
I don't know what it takes for you 39ers to
attend the annual June Alumni Reunion,
particularly those of you within easy dri-
ving distance of By field. All I can say is
you missed one of the most fun-filled and
entertaining weekends of your lives.
Inasmuch as you have been out of GDA
over 50 years, you are now part of the Old
Guard and the red carpet is rolled out
with campus accommodations, meals and
periods of libation at no charge. There
will be another Reunion-our 57th— next
June. Make every effort to attend. Youill
enjoy. Only two of us, Phil Simpson and I,
with our wives, partook of the hospitality
extended to us this past June. We had a
marvelous time participating in the many
events, and I must confess the two of us
had no intention of acting our age.
Although there were many highlights to
the weekend, Phil and my participation in
the Alumni /ae Glee Club Concert, con-
ducted by Art Sager and accompanied by
Ben and Nancy Stone, was most memo-
rable. Both of us stayed in the back row
and warbled or lip-synched our way
through the program. Phil leaned heavily
on me, particularly when he would fre-
quently lose his place. Incidentally, Phil is
The Archon -Fall 1995 29
Class Notes
quite a party guy when it comes to social
events. Balloon busting is also one of his
specialties. Thanks to Mike Moonves,
Director of Alumni /ae-Parent Relations,
neither one of us was suspended,
although Mike's hair stood on end at
times, t It was great seeing our good
friends Bob Lyle '40 and Bob Schumann
'40. Many of you will remember these
two guys who were an important part of
our campus life. T To get back to Phil
Simpson, he has been running the tennis
program at the Augusta Country Club this
summer, as well as following the Bellamy
Jazz Band around Maine and being con-
nected with the Carousel Dinner Theater
in Boothbay Harbor. Apparently, he's
quite a gardener, as he and Susan have
lots of flowers and a beautiful vegetable
garden. Other than that, he says there's
not much to do. t Although received too
late for the spring Archon, I finally heard
from a long lost soul-Gordon Tooley. He
graduated from the University of Maine in
1943 with a degree in Engineering. He has
five children, spends summers in Brevard,
NC, and winters in Amelia Island, FL. He
is retired, after spending 27 years in real
estate investment, and enjoys tennis and
hiking. Hopefully, we'll hear from him
again. T Jack Dunlap, who traveled
extensively this past year to Machu
Picchu, the Galapagos Islands and Belize,
now says he's too chicken to stray too far
from home, although I'll bet he's about to
get his second wind. This summer he's
playing the organ in his local church and
participating in continuous social and cul-
tural events while entertaining numerous
house guests, which at this stage is begin-
ning to be a bore. T Hank Payson reports
that he has seen Norton Cushman and
Sandy Young at the U.S. Senior Golf
Tournament in Greenwich. He also
attended Make Lord's 50th wedding
anniversary, which he greatly enjoyed.
Apparently, he challenged Make to a
wrestling match but was turned down.
The following day Make was agreeable.
There's no report of what happened. We
suspect Hank, after a day of bravado,
decided to lay low. T Chuck Hewitt
reports that he enjoyed trout fishing in the
Catskills this spring, spent a few days at
the Skytop Club in Skytop, PA, and has
been playing a lot of golf this summer. In
addition, he has found time to join a
Senior summer bowling league. Isn't it
great how these old duffers get around? T
Had a phone call from Tom Parker this
summer, and he, as you might gather, is
also playing a lot of golf just down the
river from my hometown. Being so close,
we have been remiss in not getting
together. There's still time before he heads
back south, so we'll make it a point to hit
Northfield, MA, before his departure, t I
have just received a lengthy note from
Matty Hannon on a very imposing green
letterhead having to do with the St.
Patrick's Day Parade Committee of
Washington, D.C. He has received notice
from the National Park Service that the
monument honoring the Irish Brigade at
Antietam has been approved. He's been
working on this for seven years and
expects the dedication in September of '96,
if he can raise enough money by then.
Matty, I'll send you a roster of your '39
classmates, although I'm not sure how
successful you'll be. Incidentally, he had
the honor of introducing Gerry Adams,
president of the Sinn Fein Party in
Northern Ireland, at a reception to the
Irish Community. Matty is recovering
from surgery and hopes to make next
year's Reunion. There's a certain phase of
the Alumni Reunion I know he'll enjoy. ▼
Although a two year battle with prostate
cancer may have temporarily slowed
George Hubbell, it didn't stop him from
capturing two gold medals and a bronze
in swimming in the recent National Senior
Sports Classic in San Antonio. George,
who is 75, has been swimming competi-
tively for 60 years and has accumulated
many honors over the years. Thanks to
his swimming discipline, his health has
stabilized. George hopes to make next
year's Reunion. ▼ Thayer Richardson
reports he keeps busy with all sorts of
activities in Massachusetts and Florida.
He lists sailing, boating, swimming, golf-
ing, fishing, woodworking and visiting
friends. Doesn't sound as though he has
much time for anything else. T Tom
Killough is still working part-time at Lord
& Taylor in Westfield, NJ. He plans to
visit Madrid in early October. He says
some nice things about me as your corre-
spondent, but I'm too modest to divulge
the contents. T The Danube is not blue!
That's the latest report from Tom Tenney,
who had the good fortune to spend two
weeks "rollin' on the river." However,
always being suspicious of Tom's
escapades, I suspect the five kinds of
vodka he sampled on the Russian ship
had something to do with this discovery.
He did say between sips that he found the
service and housekeeping excellent. Since
his return, he feels somewhat neglected as
he hasn't seen or heard from any of his
GDA buddies. Can anyone help? T Just
under the wire comes John Gannett with a
report of his doings. He's still in the boat
business, as he relates he has put new run-
ning gear under his boat trailer. The
boarding ladder has been repaired, two
additional fuel tanks have been installed,
and he's repaired a similar necessity on his
son's boat. In the meantime, his wife Pat
has done a superb job in designing their
new home. Apparently, that too is being
commissioned. Being a landlubber from
way back, I get green when I try to under-
stand this nautical language.
'40
William H. Torrey
Secretary
112 Fire Island Avenue
Babylon, NY 11702
(516) 669-4339
My first round as Class Secretary did not
result in very many replies to my letter.
Here's hoping for better luck next time.
To all concerned, I submit Class Notes to
GDA on the following dates: Winter -
11/27, Spring - 3/4, Fall - 8/21. Please
keep these dates in mind when respond-
ing to my class letters. Thanks. T Andy
Bailey has become "un-retired" and
returned to law practice. Spending time in
Naples, FL. His new address is c/o
Warner & Stackpole, 75 State Street,
Boston, MA 02109. Tel. (617) 951-9068. t
Norm Quint has turned 73 and is breath-
ing that great New Hampshire air. His
chicken-scratch writing is beyond my
comprehension. He would like to hear
from Sandy Young. If I read correctly, his
address is P.O. Box 787, Wolfeboro, NH
07897. Tel. (603) 569-3680. ▼ Bob Little
reports he is very busy working in
research and product development.
(Developing just what, Bob?). T Ben
Wright is still active in figure skating and
working on a 75th anniversary "History of
U.S. Figure Skating" for 1996. He'll be
traveling to Switzerland in September and
Israel next June. A fall and elbow fracture
in January has inhibited his "athletic activ-
ity" somewhat, otherwise O.K. (Ben, have
you tried roller blades?). ▼ Larry Van
Doren just spent a week at the shore with
seven of eight grandchildren and their
assorted parents. His sanity was pre-
served by good weather. "Imagine such a
horde indoors for seven days!" ▼ Bob
Schumann reports he, Ben Wright and Bob
Lyle were the only returnees of the Class
of '40 at our 55th Reunion. (What's hap-
pened to our class esprit de corps?) Your
secretary had to forgo the Reunion due to
a family wedding. I'm so sorry to have
missed it. Bob enjoyed a round of golf as
a guest of Dick Osgood and hails the skill
of Dottie Bragdon: "She can really move
the ball!i T Dave Solomon says news is
scanty. Now working three days a week
at U.C.L.A. A "slow learner," he has been
30 The Archon - Fall 1995
there just 43 years. His wife Ronnie and
he are rabid basketball fans and enjoyed a
great 1994-95 season. ▼ Al Hutchinson
attended an Elderhostel aboard a wind-
jammer out of Camden, ME, sailing the
coast to Bar Harbor. He is a country
farmer, attending to his eight acres. He'd
love to hear from other Maine grads of
GDA. ▼ Fred Stanger stopped by GDA
last May on his way to Maine for a vaca-
tion-the first time since 1940. Fred is
retired from real estate and living in
Daytona Beach. He joined the U.S. Air
Corps after graduating from GDA and
flew as a ferry pilot and a convoy pilot.
He worked for Bar Harbor Airlines for a
while, and then real estate before sailing to
Florida in 1985. ▼ Dana Jones recently
dropped by to see Olie Olsen '37 and
spent the whole day talking baseball. T
Note: Remember the spring deadline for
news to me is 3/4/96. Regards to all!
'41
R. Andrew Little
Secretary
RD #3, Box 336
Little Falls, NY 13365
(315) 823-1662
55th Class Reunion
June 10, 11,12
'42
Seward E. Pomeroy
Secretary
29 Berwick Lane
Worcester, MA 01602
(508) 752-7469
Ted Stitt talked to me back in the winter
about Bill Monroe and an avocation of his
in sculpting, which he is translating into a
business with some wide potential. In
May, Bill sent me a detailed packet of text
and photographs outlining his activities in
the field of art, in which he has had a life-
long interest, which actually goes back to
his grammar school days. He took a
course in charcoal and pastels with Chan
Hill at school, and I think we were in the
same class in 1941-42. At any rate, his
interest continued in the study of paint-
ings and sculpture in museums and gal-
leries when he was on business trips to
metropolitan centers around the U.S. His
present endeavors are with the develop-
ment of stainless steel sculptures as three-
dimensional images representing flight as
an uplifting motif. Not only flight in
terms of jet transport, but flight of a foot-
ball, a golf ball, a bird or even the path of
a shot-making swing. Bill reasons that as
corporations expand world-wide, the need
to communicate on a level which is above
language becomes imperative. This is "a
new business venture," Bill writes, "which
hopefully gets beyond the venture stage
pretty soon. It needs lots of professional
Monroe's work: Spinnaker Run II, a 17-inch
stainless steel sculpture by artist Bill Monroe '42,
shines in the sun.
marketing assistance, particularly to the
yachting world and buyers." T Dick
Lawson writes that he has sold their
house in Florida and they now plan to
rent each winter. Summers will still be
spent in Maine, which he says are "great—
especially when you live next door to a
lobsterman." T Nice card from John
Mortimer, who reports that he has been in
England and France during the past year.
"I have been on a consulting job for the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art."
John reports that he and Hilda "and our
children and our seven grandchildren are
all in one piece. Hope you are the same."
Thanks, John. We are. ▼ Brief note from
Dave Jarvis indicating that he is alive and
kicking and still working. "The hot
weather is great-if you have a restaurant
on the water!" ▼ Another classmate who
is still working is Jason Starr, and, he adds,
enjoying it. His two sons are divorced,
but both getting remarried. His grandchil-
dren now number eight. For diversion,
Jason is on the golf links three times a
week. "I don't understand," he comments
ending his note, "The people's protest
against the A-Bomb. I was in the Panama
Canal, going from Europe to Japan. I was
never so ecstatic about any event." Well,
that makes two of us, because my LSM (a
sea-going landing ship) was to be in the
fifth wave in the invasion of Japan in early
November. I guess we were all ecstatic!. T
Thanks for writing. More to follow.
'43
Benjamin B. Brewster
Secretary
88 Warren Avenue
Plymouth, MA 02360
(508) 746-1306
'44
'45
Secretary Needed
Richard A. Cousins
Secretary
71 Federal Street
Newburyport, MA
01950
(508) 462-4542
Our 50th Class Reunion on June 9, 10 and
11 was attended by our classmates Brad
Alden, Tom Atkins, Doug Bean, Dick
Cousins, Warren Furth, Jack Gillies, Dave
Graham, Stan Hamel, Ed Hubbard, Keith
Johnson, Lee Noyes, Bill Page, Don Palais,
Brad Roberts, Bob Scribner, Bob Steinert,
Sy Symonds, Al Teel, Irv Williamson, Paul
Withington and Bots Young. Together
with wives and friends, there was a total
of 36 in attendance. It turned out to be a
congenial group, who had a wonderful
time reminiscing and becoming re-
acquainted. Much credit for the success of
the Reunion is due to the efforts the
Academy made to see to it that we felt
welcome and were well fed and watered.
(When was the last time the Headmaster
poured you a glass of champagne?) Also,
special thanks go to Barbara and Bill Page
for the most pleasant cocktail party given
for the Class in their home, and which
included Art Sager, John Witherspoon and
John Koslowski. A minor casualty was
our Class picture, which is in two parts.
One is of Paul Withington, Brad Roberts
and their wives. The other is everybody
else. It seems Paul became lost in the
intricacies of the Byfield highway system
and he and his passengers missed the time
for the class picture. However, they were
able to arrange their own supplemental
picture. Paul ran three laps around the
Milestone as penance, and all is forgiven.
Paul is enjoying retirement as much as
ever. With the arrival of his fourth grand-
child (daughter) and another due in June,
he's beginning to build a credible excuse
for his aching joints and vacationing
brains! "Grampa is aging!". T Arch
Kingsley writes, "My 14-year-old daughter
graduated from Country School in Easton
on Friday-same day as the Reunion
started, and a mix-up in plane reserva-
tions prevented me from attending.
Missed you all." T Dave Barnard writes,
"Sorry to have missed the 50th at GDA.
We were able to get away this spring for a
ten-day cruise to Venezuela and some of
the Caribbean islands. Great fun-no tele-
phones ringing, no deadlines to meet and
no meals to plan. I noted that 'Governor
Dummer Prep School' was mentioned in a
Robert Parker book of the Spenser series.
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Class Notes
Mr. Mercer would have had this on the
required reading list to critique, I am
sure. T A note from Warren Furth:
"Margaret and I greatly enjoyed the 50th
Reunion, which we thought to have been
successful, with a great turnout.
Following the GDA visit, we spent a fan-
tastic vacation on lakes in New York and
Maine. We are now back in Geneva, but
look forward to a planned October trip to
San Francisco and Portland, OR. Such are
the hardships of retirement." T In a letter
last May, Tim Catlin wrote to Don Palais,
"As you may know, I still have my last
three wending their way through the Air
Force Academy Cornell and Maine.
Unfortunately, even though my daughter
graduates next June 1st, her first Air Force
assignment will cut into her graduation
leave. So early June is in reality the last
time we'll all be together. Consequently,
I've decided I'd better devote this time to
my young Air Force officer. So, with
regrets, I've decided not to make an effort
to get back to our half-century get-
together. Please give my best to every-
one." T I received notes also from Lou
Hamper and Bill Hale, saying that, unfor-
tunately, circumstances had forced them to
cancel their plans to attend the Reunion,
and regretting the fact that they would not
see their old classmates. ▼ Stan Hamel
has been a trustee of the New Hampshire
Historical Society since 1979 and its trea-
surer since 1981. A news letter from the
Society acknowledges a generous gift from
the Hamel family to its capital campaign
to create a new Museum of New
Hampshire History in Eagle Square in
Concord, which has been named the
Hamel Center in recognition of the fami-
ly's generosity and dedication.
Edward W. Rogers '47
Inducted Into Hall of Fame
Edward W. Rogers '47 was
recently honored by the Maine Baseball
Hall of Fame for his "continued support
of baseball in Maine and New England. '
President of the Hall of Fame,
Willfred Noel, said of Rogers, "For more
than 40 years, Eddie has always been
there for Maine baseball players. "
Rogers, a graduate of Boiudoin
College and the University of Maine Law
School, is a retired judge and lives in
Portland.
In Boston: Mannie and Pete Houston '48 meet Cindy and Ned Beebe '57 at the Boston Pops reception in May.
'46
George E. Duffy II
Secretary
P.O. Box 1056
Camden, ME 04843
(207) 236-4038
50th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
'47
Samuel C. Gwynne, Jr.
Secretary
P.O. Box 2
East Falmouth, MA
02536
(508) 548-4775
Some good news and some bad news
about Ed Rogers. Bad news first: Ed suf-
fered a stroke last year which rendered his
left side useless. Getting around is not
easy, "but the quad cane helps." Now the
good news: The Maine Baseball Hall of
Fame recently honored Ed with its
President's Award, recognizing over 40
years of active support for baseball in
Maine and throughout New England.
Among Ed's earlier accomplishments was
sending all seven (!) kids through
Bowdoin, a record that won't soon be bro-
ken. He and wife Joyce clearly lead our
class in the number of grandchildren:
11. ..with two more on the way! Ed and
Joyce recently hosted Hammerin' Henry
Dunker at their summer cottage on Crystal
Lake. Henry continues to practice law in
Weymouth, t Allen Hughes reports from
Dominguez Hills, CA, that he is happily
remarried and that his forms-printing
business is doing well. Al owns consider-
able property in Oregon which he hopes
to develop soon and for which he is seek-
ing investors. The close friendship
between Al and Jay Curtis has continued
from their days in South Byfield to the
present time. Jay, V.P and G.M. of Book
Covers, Inc., a Chicago firm, paid a visit to
the Hugheses during a recent business trip
to La-La Land. Noting that our 50th Class
Reunion is only 20 months away, Allen
says "I'll be there!" T Bill Bailey says,
"Pleased to announce that I've adjusted to
retirement. Still playing hockey-and
enjoying the good life." ▼ Bill Philbrick
reports from Skowhegan that he's enjoy-
ing retirement, too, and playing a lot of
golf. He's now an 18 handicap. Should be
ripe for plucking at the golf tournament at
our 50th in '97! T Fred MacBurnie sends
along a succinct summary of the last 48
years: "Retired Graf Bros. 35 years.
Retired Newbury Police 26 years. Retired
Mass. Marine Fisheries 10 years. Now I
enjoy skating at the GDA rink and clam-
ming with my son. Am finally getting to
spend some time with my two grandchil-
dren and my wife." T Homer Ambrose is
one classmate who can always be counted
on to send along an update full of fasci-
nating details. Here's the latest: "Hot
summer in northern Virginia. Marie kept
me confined to quarters on a schedule of
Diet Coke and the 10 o'clock news.
Remain grumpy and hungry most of the
time, so must restrict intake of peanut but-
ter by substituting Dannon yogurt for
those 3 a.m. snacks. Looking back 50
years to the third floor of Commons I real-
ize that, in spite of myself, GDA really did
a number on me. Best wishes and love to
all." ▼ Jack Deering writes that he is
"very pleased and proud of the support
extended to me and the Class of '47 in
32 The Archon - Fall 1995
raising our participation to 75% this past
year. Truly a team effort!" T A most
pleasant aspect of being Class Secretary
are those all-too-rare occasions when you
help to "discover" the whereabouts of a
classmate who has been missing for a long
time. In the Class of '47, Herb Hoffman
had been missing (or, in GDA's parlance,
"lost") for lo, these many years. At a
recent social gathering on Cape Cod, GDA
came into the conversation and a guest
volunteered that, during his undergrad
days at Harvard, he had had a close friend
who had gone to GDA. (Guess who?)
Enough information about Herb was pro-
vided so that I could intelligently contact
Harvard's Office of Alumni Records... and
here's what we now know about our
classmate: Herb received three degrees
(including his doctorate) from Harvard.
After completing his formal education, he
returned to his native Germany, where he
taught at the university level for several
years. His next stop was in a small town
in the Italian Alps, where he was a
museum curator. He returned to
Germany (Hamburg), where he combined
his teaching and his fine arts careers
before retiring to Italy a few years ago.
His address: Podere Istine, Radda, Italy I-
53017. Why not drop him a note and wel-
come him back into the Class of 1947.. .and
be sure to remind him about our 50th
Reunion.
'49
'48
Secretary Needed
Ash Eames writes that his daughter Polly,
who grew up as a faculty child in Moody
and Ingham, is getting married in
December. She runs her own interior
design business in Miami, FL. T After 29
years of New Hampshire living and
extended careers in teaching community
recreation, Pete Houston and wife Mannie
have relocated to 553 Thomas Bransby,
Williamsburg, VA. Pete plans to continue
in his third career as a performing story-
teller, although not as vigorously as in the
past eight years (among other things, no
more four-year-old birthday parties). For
those traveling to and from the southland,
there is an open invitation to stop by the
Houstons' for a visit in the town of
America's colonial heritage. ▼ Bill Soule
is getting ready to retire to Florida next
year. He has two daughters. One is 25,
married and living in Denver; the other is
a magna cum graduate of Dartmouth in
'93, living and working in Hong Kong and
engaged to be married in October 1996.
Archer B. des Cognets
Secretary
P.O. Box 13
Lincoln Center, MA
01773
(617) 259-8669
Your Class Secretary, after getting off to an
enthusiastic start, has fallen a bit behind
because of a breakdown in communica-
tions as a reflection of my having relo-
cated to Melbourne, Australia. You may
recall that last year I spent six months in
Hong Kong consulting for my former
employer, United Asset Management
Corporation, and in April of this year I
arrived here in Australia for approxi-
mately one year to do the same thing. I
will in fact be covering New Zealand,
Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia as
well, which makes for an interesting retire-
ment assignment. I am living testimony to
the fact that you can't teach an old dog
new tricks.. ▼ Had a nice note from Dave
Flanders, who is about to retire after 40
years as a Parish Priest in the Episcopal
Church. There are four children and five
grandchildren, and having spent many
summers at Martha's Vineyard, Dave
expects to retire there. T Ed Veasey sent
me two wonderful pictures taken on the
island of Kauai, Hawaii, of himself and
Peter Statler, his roommate of more than
40 years ago. I would have said neither
one of them had changed a bit. Ed shares
my enthusiasm for the 50th Reunion in
1999, and I assume you all have your cal-
endars worked accordingly. I need to hear
from more of you to make this column
more interesting, and we will be getting a
letter off to you to generate some
responses. In the likely event that some of
you may be moved to communicate with
me before you get my letter, my address in
Australia is 94 Vale Street, East
Melbourne, Vic 3002, Australia. Look for-
ward to hearing from you.
Pre-Pops: Bill Alfond '67 (left) chats with David
Pope '51 P'73 '75 '78 at the pre-Boston Pops recep-
tion the Alfonds hosted in May.
Guy Tudor '52 Wins Gold
Guy Tudor '52, considered to be
the premier illustrator of South American
birds, received one of the most prestigious
recognitions for a wildlife artist in April.
The Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences awarded Tudor the Gold
Medal for Distinction in Natural History
Art. Past recipients of the award, which
is given only periodically, include Roger
Tory Peterson, Ansel Adams and Eliot
Porter.
Tudor is best known for his
illustration of the four-volume reference
series, The Birds of South America and
of A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela.
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Alan F. Flynn, Jr.
Secretary
1 Katherine Road
Rehoboth, MA 02769
(508) 252-6482
Since more than half of the Class of 1950
resides in New England, it is relatively
easy for that group to keep current about
GDA and to return to Byfield for reunions.
We recognize the special effort made by
those who journeyed from the south, mid-
west, west coast and even Hawaii to be
with us in June. Many thanks. May your
efforts be an inspiration to us all. ▼ Jack
Hattstaedt has written from Tucson, AZ,
that our school seems very different from
the one we attended long ago: more lib-
eral, coed and much more active in con-
tacting alumni. I encourage Jack to join us
for Byfield 2000 to see for himself the con-
tinuation of tradition, evidence of fiscal
conservation and pursuit of excellence
worthy of our support. T There were sev-
eral communications last spring from
Willy Nordzvind in Kalamazoo, MI. Willy
continues to enjoy the practice of law.
Older son Will is a legislative aide in
Washington, D.C Daughter Julie was
expecting a second child. Younger son
Tim was completing freshman year at
DePaul University in Chicago. Wife
Thekla runs a travel agency in Kalamazoo.
Willy promised to make our 45th. He
honored that promise and made a lot of
people happy in the process. ▼ During
that weekend in Byfield, one of Willy's
many stories was about our lost classmate
Marshall Jones. Willy told of visiting
Mexico during his army days and, most
unexpectedly, running into Marshall play-
ing trumpet in the band at a local estab-
lishment. I would love to hear Marshall's
version of this tale. ▼ Also at Reunion
was Mai Robertson. Not only did we
relive the "good old days"of senior year in
adjacent rooms on Peirce I, but I learned
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Class Notes
that Mai's dad had been a close friend of
Hoagy Carmichael, often sitting in for
Hoagy on piano. I trust we all remember
Star Dust, if not Bix. T Pete Yates had
planned to be with us, but on the morning
of June 9th his mother suffered a slight
stroke in Virginia. After several trips back
and forth, Pete is happy to report progress
from hospital to nursing home to assisted
living. On the other end of the genera-
tional ladder, Pete's one-year-old grand-
daughters are "both doing super." His
parting comment was "Hope to see you
all in 2000." T It should be noted that
Dodge Morgan, now presiding over the
Board of Trustees at GDA, attended his
first alumni Reunion. You make us all a
little prouder, Dodge, t Wife Emi and I
had a great trip in August to the Pacific
Northwest with our daughter, son-in-law
and son. We did the national parks and
other sights from San Francisco to Seattle
and then visited Emi's mother and two
brothers in Victoria and Vancouver. We
even caught salmon. The down side was
the late mailing of my letters to class-
mates. The news you send will be in the
winter Archon. I know your cards will
soon be pouring in.
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Ted H. Barrows III
Secretary
136 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 254-1909
Howard C. Reith, Jr.
Secretary
7 Appaloosa Lane
South Hamilton, MA
01982
(508) 468-0203
45th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
In July, we managed to pull off a mini-
reunion as sort of a pre-game warm-up to
our big 45th in June, 1996. I helped to
arrange the charter of a 36-foot Grand
Banks out of Falmouth for Gina and Bill
Atwell, so they could escape the heat of
San Antonio for a week or two (we had a
record-breaking heat wave while they
were here). Jackie and I joined the Atwells
for a cruise to Block Island, where we met
up with Carol and Bob Louttit for a nice
visit at their beautifully restored house
there. It had been 44 years since my two
classmates had seen each other, but it was
unanimously agreed that no one has
changed. T Mai Davidson acknowledges
that he is still working (modern medicine
confirms that this is very healthy). Mai's
Richard Marr '53
Named to Hall of Fame
Riclmrd T. "Lefty" Marr '53
was feted at the Massachusetts State
Hockey Coaches Association 23rd Annual
Hall of Fame Dinner at Boston Garden
last March in recognition of his 38 years
of teaching and coaching.
Marr, who was described in the
event's program as "a child prodigy of
the hockey world who stood between the
pipes at Boston Latin, Governor Dummer
Academy and Williams College," played
for the Berlin, NH, Barons, the Needham
Rockets, the Weymouth Hockey Club and
the Brockton Wetzels the last of which he
led to the 1959 world championships in
Moscow.
During his teaching and coach-
ing career, he has been on the staffs of
eight hockey schools throughout the U.S.
and Canada, and has been co-director of
the Blue Hills Hockey School since 1973.
He coached the Milton Academy boys '
hockey team for 23 years, compiling a
record of 251-163-13. In 1980 he was
named charge d 'affaire of the Norwegian
hockey team during the 1980 Lake Placid
Olympics. He served on the Board of
Advisors of the Massachusetts High
School Hockey Coaches Association from
1972-80, and has been supervisor of offi-
cials for the E.C.A.C. since 1987.
youngest son is getting married in
October, t As indicated in a previous col-
umn, Ed Stockwell confirms the marriage
of his daughter on July 1st and evidences
a hope to write about a first grandchild
next year. Ed will try to arrange his work-
ing schedule so he can attend the 45th. ▼
I had a phone call with George Kirkham to
confirm that he was happily relocated to
Water Mill, Long Island. He had said in
his card that Colorado is beautiful, but too
far away. We plan to get together in New
York soon. T Dave Bullock reports:
"Lifestyle and work habits unchanged,"
and "although I think Mai Davidson is
still retired, he 'works' just down the street
from my office, so I could spy on him for
some additional news if you will autho-
rize." Also, he looks forward to the
Reunion and challenges anyone in a tennis
match, "assuming my back recovers in
time." Obviously, an attempt to develop
an early excuse just in case. T After three
careers, the last 14 years as treasurer of a
company in Amsterdam, NY, Ben
Hawkins has retired and is enjoying six
children and 11.9 grandchildren. He is
spending the summer sailing the
Thousand Islands and next winter will
spend a month at his Killington town-
house. Which month, Ben? T Yogi Wenz
returned my phone call just in time to
make this report, and it was great to hear
from him. He and Dick Bittner keep in
contact and both hope to return next June.
Bob is still in the wine business and
informs us that two of the best sellers are
"Wild Irish Rose"and "Cisco," the best of
the "Skid Row" wines. T As co-chair of
our forthcoming Reunion, I was very
pleased to receive a card and follow up
phone call from Dave Pope. He and Bill
Lacey have very graciously offered their
homes for parties during the weekend,
and I look forward to working with them
and other volunteers to make this a mem-
orable event (or happening, as the case
may be). Dave and Sue will be spending
several days in early September with
Yolanda and Ken Bistany in Longboat
Key. Please note the correct spelling, Ken.
The editor misread my handwriting last
time. T You'll be hearing from us soon
about our 45th.
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Franklin E. Huntress, Jr.
Secretary
5C Independence Way
Glover Landing
Marblehead, MA 01945
(617) 631-4785
John Murdoch: "Now happily retired
from merchant banking and will continue
to live in 'Ol Blighty!" T David Powers:
"Retired the end of December 1994 as VP
of Institutional Resources at Colorado
School of Mines. Still living in the grand
state of Colorado-in Golden-but working
as Senior Consulting VP. for the fund-rais-
ing consultants, Grenzebach Gliep and
Associates, Inc." T Noble Smith writes,
"It has been many a decade since I have
submitted any personal news, but nostal-
gia, at times, does play a role in life when
you get up a few years. Bertie and I, after
many months of scouring the countryside,
have purchased a small farm, and Bertie
has opened Hummingbird Hill Flower
and Perennial Farm in Upper Bucks
County, PA. I have moved my 15-year-old
consulting business for non-profit organi-
zations to a newly renovated porch of the
main house, a 200-year-old Bucks County
stone farmhouse. What a wonderful way
to enjoy two life-long interests both within
30 steps of the other. We are both active
birders, gardeners (obviously), grandpar-
ents of seven, and we look forward to
34 The Archon -Fall 1995
many peaceful years near Quakertown,
PA." ▼ Rob Smythe: "Presently building
and restoring furniture in my workshop at
home. Having lunch monthly with Bud
Reith '51 . He is Professor-of-Note at
Northshore Community College!"
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William C. Pinkham
Secretary
P.O. Box 369
Glenmoore, PA 19343
(610) 942-3273
Jack Clifford sends best regards to all from
N.Y.C., "Where murder is down, but so
are co-op prices!" He says that business is
improving, and that he doesn't miss the
luxurious languor of Palm Beach at all.
(Just wait until our repeat of the winter of
'94.) He hopes to attend the next big GDA
Reunion, but will have to find someone to
wheel up with. (No problem, Jack.) T
John Hall writes, "Now that I have had a
good number of body parts replaced, I'm
as good as I was at graduation. But then
again, some would say I wasn't good
then." Sounds like John got caught in a
sale at a Midas Muffler shop. As I recall,
John was in good shape at graduation, but
many of us got bent out of shape at the
party that evening. In fact, there's a
rumor that one of our classmates was
recently seen trying to get up the down
escalator at the Framingham Mall. ▼ Carl
Gibbs recently visited Zion & Bryce
National Parks and says the hiking in Zion
is great. He also says, "Work and play go
well." T Sue and I are off to Colorado and
Wyoming in August for hiking and family
and to scout the real estate market. Had
lunch with Harvey Towvim on our way
down from our vacation in New
Hampshire. He was tanned, healthy and
full of energy and ideas. If any of you
think that life is dull and boring at the age
of 59 or 60, you should talk to Harvey.
He'll put some high test in your tank. By
the way, we do work between vacations....
Our best to all of you. Just remember, it
won't be long before you're entitled to
senior citizen discounts.
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Michael B. Smith
Secretary
1315 Merrie Ridge Road
McLean, VA 22101
(703) 522-4582
George O. Gardner III
Secretary
53 Woodbury Lane
Acton, MA 01720
(508) 263-3052
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James Dean III
Secretary
13 Circuit Road
South Berwick, ME
03908
(207) 384-9184
40th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
'57
Lyman A. Cousens III
Secretary
4 Goodhue Road
Boscawen, NH 03303
(603) 796-6446
Three Inducted
Into Lax Hall of Fame
Three men with connections to
Governor Dummer Academy — Richard
L. Corrigan, G. Heberton Evans HI and
Eugene Bouley '57 — were inducted into
the New England Lacrosse Hall of Fame
in June.
Evans, who died in 1985, is a
New England prep school lacrosse legend.
He played lacrosse at the Gilman School
in Baltimore and at Princeton University,
and coached lacrosse at GDA from 1956
through 1984. He zoas considered one of
the premier intellects of the game. His
book Lacrosse Fundamentals, which he
co-wrote xoith GDA master teacher and
coach Bob Anderson, continues to be read
today. Three former captains of the GDA
lacrosse team — Brian Noyes '76, Chris
Stafford '80 and Bob Low '82 — were pre-
sent to accept the award on Evans'
behalf.
Bouley, who zvas coached by
Evans, played at Brown University and
went on to spend 32 years teaching and
coaching at Winchester High School.
With a career record of 215-150-2,
Bouley 's lacrosse squads qualified for the
state tournament nine times, winning the
state championship in 1971. That same
year, Bouley was chosen "National High
School Coach of the Year. "
Corrigan, GDA's lacrosse coach
for the past two years, was an all-state
high school player in Maryland and an
All- American at the University of
Maryland. After an illustrious career
coaching at Yale University and the U.S.
Naval Academy, as assistant director of
athletics at the University of
Pennsylvania and a seven-year stint as
chair of the United States Inter-
collegiate Lacrosse Association, Corrigan
retired to Newburyport, MA.
Carl Blyth, one of '57's "missing in
action"classmates, has surfaced growing
orchids in his basement in Sudbury, MA.
While "missing," Carl was doing mission-
ary work in Rwanda. Carl found Pak
Jackson, also listed as missing, but we do
not know what Pak is growing in his base-
ment. T My threat to expose a classmate's
third marriage to his daughter's high
school chum brought forth a terrific letter
from Tom Chalfant who had no reason for
alarm, having never married. That has
nothing to do with the fact that he roomed
with your class secretary in 1955-56. Tom
has taught at Alabama State College for 25
years, is in the company of a terrific signif-
icant other and underwent a transforma-
tion from liberal to conservative long
before the world was Newt-erd. ▼ Geoff
Pitts, our most reliable correspondent and
itinerant golfer, acknowledges he is the
Tennessee Ernie Ford of '57, another year
older and deeper in debt. He sure ain't
unique! T Ned Stone is still conducting
applications of infrared for the Navy.
Winning the Moody Kent Latin Prize in
'55 and graduating from Yale has pro-
vided Ned with a unique insight on the
quality of Pacific Northwest beers, as you
might expect. Red Hook is now building
a brewery in New Hampshire, so we folks
back east can enjoy it too!
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Ralph E. Ardiff, Jr.
Secretary
238 Conant Street
Danvers, MA 01923
(508) 774-3336
Dave Cox reports that he has been chief
psychologist at Ohio's Maximum Security
Penitentiary since 1991. This also hap-
pened to be where inmates rioted on
Easter Sunday in 1993 for 11 days and
killed nine inmates and one guard. But
life is not all stress for Dave and Gaylene;
they live on the Ohio river and enjoy boat-
On behalf of Heb: Former GDA lacrosse captains
Chris Stafford '80, Brian Noyes '76 and Bob Low
'82, accept an award commemorating the induction
of the late GDA master teacher and lacrosse coach
Heb Evans into the New England Lacrosse Hall of
Fame.
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Class Notes
ing between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in
a 35-foot cabin cruiser. ▼ Toto Hunt
reports that he recently saw Steve
Houghton at their 40th grammar school
reunion and promised each other that they
would meet at GDA for our 40th in 1998.
Toto was still proficient at golf, usually
scoring in the mid 70's. ▼ Demi Reed
checked in to report that his real estate
business is doing quite well and is cer-
tainly much more fun than it was a few
years ago. Demi is still paying tuitions
with one son at the University of Denver
and another just out of the U.S. Army
Rangers and looking towards college. T
Demi also provided a news clipping
regarding Joe Montgomery and
Cannondale Corp., a top-of-the-line bicy-
cle company. Joe started the company in
1971, selling biking accessories, and in
1982 began manufacturing high quality
bicycles. Joe's company now produces 50
models, has gross sales of about $100 mil-
lion and continues to grow rapidly. From
the newspaper photo, Joe obviously rides
himself, because he looks to be in excellent
physical condition. Hopefully, we will
hear from Joe himself for the next
Archon. T Ken Weene is still writing nov-
els and still looking for publishers. His
wife Roz is doing quite well in her art
career and has been invited to show in
Copenhagen this coming year, when it
will be the "cultural capital" of Europe, t
Major surprise! Fred Sayles reported in
that he spent much of June in Siberia, try-
ing to straighten out the aftermath of a
tragedy. This was in conjunction with
Fred's work at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute. Fred also reports
that he is heading down the home stretch
in the college tuition department. ▼
Richard Morse sent in word that he is still
at the Tenwek Hospital in Kenya where he
and his wife were visited by their daugh-
ter Elizabeth during the summer months,
and then their son Richard Jr. spent three
months working at the hospital as part of
his elective training for his fourth year at
Indiana University School of Medicine.
Daughter Joy this past spring graduated
from Asbury College, while Rick gradu-
ated from medical school a week later.
Richard reports that it is hard to believe
that he has now spent over 26 years with
the World Gospel Mission servicing the
spiritual and medical needs of his patients
at Tenwek Hospital. It has been very
rewarding for Richard to see so many of
his patients recover from Malaria and
other dreaded diseases, but it continues to
be a sad experience that so many continue
to die because of shortages of hospital
beds, medicines and medical personnel. ▼
Finally, Jay Higgins has been leading a
very active life. Jay is an avid boater, pho-
tographer and international traveler, and
has combined his interests and skills to
develop numerous illustrated lectures on
various aspects of antique and classic
boating around the world. He is a mem-
ber of the yachting committee of the
Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT,
and is an international past president of
the Antique and Classic Boat Society, an
organization comprised of over 5,000 col-
lectors and restorers of wooden boats built
before World War II. With our 40th
Reunion coming up in just a few years,
perhaps our Reunion Committee should
make sure that Jay shows up at the
Reunion with one of his presentations in
hand. It sounds very interesting. T I am
looking forward to hearing from many
more classmates during the coming
months.
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Mirick Friend
Secretary
50 Dorset Road
Newton, MA 02168
(617) 965-0552
Peter Sherin writes and asks the question,
"Why did I keep looking at the end of The
Archon for Class Notes and then work
back to the beginning of the section to find
our class? It is a bit unsettling, but so is
looking at being 60 and celebrating our
next GDA Reunion (40th). The reality
nudges, jangles and smiles at just about
everything." As the owner of a successful,
long-standing local grocery store in
Beverly, MA, he has joined with a citizen
group to fend off the attempts of giant
Stop & Shop to build a super store on 20
acres of waterfront property. He wonders
when the chain stopped doing things for
the community and started doing things to
it. T Geoff Lewis (Washington, D.C.)
informs us that he has bought and reno-
vated a house right around the corner
from his prior home. ("Downsizing now
that the kids are grown up.") He is look-
ing forward to possible retirement in late
1996. I guess this will be a whole new cat-
egory to write about in our notes. ▼ Roy
Nash has finished up a stint in an MCI
joint venture with British Telecom and is
now V.P. of Internal Audit at MCI. The
march of time has brought the death of his
father and aunt. Being co-executor of both
estates has taught him that estate tax law
makes the "most complicated Form 1040
look like child's play." He has not been
traveling lately as has been his custom;
rather, he and his wife enjoy their beach-
front condo in Naples, t Ferg Jansen tells
us that he has left Hop Brook restaurant
and started Tyee Management Associates,
which offers consulting services to
owner/operators in the food and beverage
industry. He is also president of the 400-
member Simsbury (CT) Chamber of
Commerce and is fighting to maintain the
excellent school system in the town. His
wife Linda is with American Airlines.
Sara (eldest) is in her second year at Sloan
Graduate School of Health Administration.
Emily is in junior high and Caroline is a
fifth-grader. He forces himself "to run six
out of seven days so I don't have to buy
clothes. If I drag after 30 minutes or so, I
fantasize that Fred Huntress is about to
pass me. This allows me to complete the
loop in speedy fashion." t Walter
Cannon wrote a most informative letter.
Of their children, the eldest is working
with a small airline in Tucson and hopes to
be a pilot. Next child is studying medicine
in England and is married to an English
pathologist. Third child is a senior at
UC/ Davis, and the fourth is a junior at
Harvard and flies airplanes and gliders.
His wife Irene is one of five doctors in the
Stanford University health center and
loves the students. "My life gets more and
more complicated daily" He maintains a
busy practice in general and thoracic
surgery at Stanford Medical Center;
recently promoted to Associate Chief of
Staff in charge of credentialing. He contin-
ues to fly a 15-meter wingspan competi-
tion glider. In addition, he has restored a
1945 Piper Cub he found hanging from a
restaurant ceiling and a 1947 Schweizer
glider he found abandoned and for which
he won a prize for "best restored" at the
International Vintage Glider meet in
Elmira, NY, this summer.
Sabbatical in the sun: GDA Associate Director of
Athletics Bob Anderson (right) and his wife Sally
catch up with Bob Fullerton '63 in Bermuda.
Anderson was on a GDA-sponsored sabbatical in June.
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'60
John C. Elwell
Secretary
266 High Street
Newburyport, MA
01950
(508) 462-8749
Larry Martin reports that he has been
appointed Elliot Professor of English at
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
This honor recognizes excellence in schol-
arship and teaching. Congratulations,
Larry! ▼ Greg Meyer writes, "Have
changed course again to realign myself."
Greg just completed one semester at
Florida Southern College majoring in biol-
ogy with a minor in chemistry. He will
graduate in December of 1996 with a B.S.
in science. Keep up the good work,
Greg! ▼ Murray Mathews has moved to
16 Philips Pond, South Natick, MA. He,
along with his sons, has been "Porsche
driving" at the New Hampshire
International Speedway and Connecticut's
Lime Rock. Murray is still working at
NitroMed. Murray, yours truly is one
classmate who would love to take a spin
around the track in a Porsche. T Not
much news this time from my classmates.
Must be the summer vacation. Hope to
hear from you next time. Remember, if
you are in Newburyport, the porch light is
on for you.
'61
J. Stephen Sawyer
Secretary
3616 Beech Run Lane
Mechanicsburg, PA
17055
(717) 732-3908
,lass Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
Booth blood finally returns to Governor
Dummer when John Peter Booth, Alan
Booth's nephew, enrolls as a junior this
fall. T Phil Teuscher, ever-traveling the
globe, is heading to France on a yacht-
hunting expedition. T I gained another
grandchild in April when my daughter
Julie gave birth to a baby girl Cassandra.
Mother and daughter are fine and, along
with two-year-old Sarah, visited us for
two weeks in June.
'62
Thomas S. Tobey
Secretary
59 West Portola Avenue
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415) 941-5060
T. Burke Leahey
Secretary
160 King Caesar Road
Duxbury, MA 02332
(617) 934-6263
My first cast into the class waters for some
news yielded a response from John
Tarbell. It seems that John has a new lease
on life with the birth of daughter Elizabeth
(Liza), eight months ago. John says that
becoming a father has "taught me
much. ..about life." Getting a late start has
not diminished the joy he and his wife
Anne are having with their daughter.
John also reports having been in touch
with Steve Kasnet and Tim McNally. He
saw Peter Butler in Boston last May. ▼
On my trip East, I stopped in Philadelphia
to visit with Chris Ferris. Although we
hadn't seen each other for 33 years, Chris
and I discovered that we shared several
experiences. Principal among these was a
tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris now has
three children and lives with his wife in a
row house near the University of
Pennsylvania. What a thrill it was to see
an old friend after such a long hiatus. T
An eight-year-old promise was fulfilled
this week. I received a package from Bob
James in the mail today. Although I had-
n't remembered, Bob had taken some pic-
tures at our 25th Reunion in 1987.
Apparently, he had promised to send me
copies. He kindly made large reproduc-
tions for all who attended, and they will
be distributed soon. What a great sur-
prise, Bob. Thanks.
'63
Peter P. Morrin
Secretary
1288 Bassett Avenue
Louisville, KY 40204
(502) 456-2397
It is no surprise that the Class of '63 are
great letter-writers. Our yearbook proves
that in our day the Literary Club was one
of the biggest things on campus. T Don
Connelly reports that he really is
employed by the Putnam Companies in
Boston, that his daughter is a law school
graduate and that he has been single again
for many years. ▼ Don visited Australia
in the past year, as did Peter Coburn, who
relates that, "Outside of Cairns I was
stalked by a cassowary, a six-foot bird
with a mean disposition known for its
ferocious attacks on humans. I couldn't
help but reflect on my possible obituary in
The Archon -'Coburn '63 killed by Big
Bird!'" According to classmates' postcards,
Peter did it all, including snorkeling on
the Great Barrier Reef. ▼ Bob Fullerton
considers himself outclassed by Peter, who
now has gone to all the continents, includ-
ing Antarctica, according to Bob. No
mean saver of air mileage points himself,
Bob went to New Zealand for a great
three-week vacation last February. He
writes, "For those of you who haven't
been there, New Zealand is a marvelous
combination of the golden grassy hills of
In character: Reverend Al Chase '65 is found in
repose, as well as in costume, while performing a
song from Fiddler On the Roof during the
Annual Reunion Weekend Alumni/ae Glee Club
Concert.
California, the sky-blue waters and white
sandy beaches of the Caribbean, the snow-
capped jagged peaks of Colorado, the jun-
gles of Central America, the glaciers and
fiords of Scandinavia, and the stoneblock
buildings and cathedrals of England.
Every city of any size has a 'Queen's
Garden'-an elaborate display of many
varieties of roses, marigolds, pansies and
numerous other unknowns. All this on
two islands totaling roughly the same size
as the state of Colorado with a population
of 3.6 million (again, roughly the same as
Colorado) plus 80,000,000 sheep!" Bob
sees Dr. J. Forbes Farmer regularly in the
winter, who stops over on his way back
from skiing trips with is son Seth. Seth
spent the Spring '95 semester studying in
London. Bob had three major GDA-
related events this past summer: First,
and most importantly, younger son Brett
graduated cum laude, exploding the myth
that intelligence has anything to do with
genetic inheritance. Second, in June, Bob
got together with Bob and Sally Anderson
in Bermuda, where Bob was enjoying a
GDA faculty sabbatical to study marine
biology, examining the calcium content
and acid-neutralizing ability of coral sand.
Thirdly, Bob and Sally Anderson got
together with Bob and Cindi Fullerton in
New Hampshire plus Jeff Ellis and his
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Class Notes
nine-year-old daughter Molly later in the
summer for a day of tubing and water-ski-
ing. Jeff had an extended Boston layover.
Aren't airline pilots disgusting? T I also
had a very long and informative letter from
Bob McGilvary, who is a planner/urban
designer for the Vancouver Planning
Department. He sent me an article on a
really remarkable city park he created. Bob
and his British wife have a 12-year-old boy
and a 10-year-old girl. He is doing great
things and deserves a long column to his
work alone. T Not to be outdone by the
other Bobs, Bob Mann reports on a move to
a new home 300 yards from the ocean in
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. In response to the
modest Connelly bio that was mailed to
classmates, Bob reports that he took his
daughter Skylar's pre-school class to Africa
on his private jet for a photo safari. Has
GDA ever had another class like ours? ▼
Your correspondent isn't going anyplace
exotic in the next four years since his son
has just started a Lamborghini-priced
sequence of undergraduate study at
Harvard.
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'65
H. Laurence Henchey, Jr.
Secretary
85 High Street
Reading, MA 01867
(617) 662-2588
lhenchey@bbn.com
Kenneth A. Linberg
Secretary
6775A Pasado Road
Isla Vista, CA 93117
(805) 685-1868
linberg@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu
Our 30th Reunion-blessed by gorgeous
By field weather and sustained by the return
of 15 classmates and their loved
ones-proved to be a wonderful and mem-
ory-rich, if all too brief, occasion. It was an
uplifting confluence of familiar and delight-
ful characters. For those of you unable to
attend, it's never too early to seriously con-
sider coming to our next Reunion by which
time we all shall have breezed past our 50th
birthdays! The Reunion weekend officially
began on Friday, June 9 with a cocktail
party /reception in the James Duncan
Phillips Library recently added off the
southeastern corner of the Cobb room. In
this impressively handsome and well-
appointed setting, Bob and Sally Anderson
proved warm and gracious hosts to us, as
well as the Old Guard and the classes of
1955 and 1960. Arriving rather late after
having finally secured lodging across the
Merrimack in Salisbury, Chester Parasco
and I found the party in progress. Already
^flfer*
Hostesses: Joan Alfond (Mrs. Bill Alfond '67)
shares a moment with Dottie Bragdon during the
reception in the Alfonds ' Boston home. GDA
alumni/ae and parents convened at the Alfonds'
before attending GDA Night at the Boston Pops.
deep in animated conversations were class
V.P. Scott Magrane, Sue and Al Chase,
Jerie Larsen and Dudley Glover, Liz and
Dave Sullivan, Tony Knapp, Karen and
Mark Starr, Eric Shepard, John Haydon
with daughter Nora, and fellow
Californians, Alex Brody and Jeff Kane,
the latter grinning mischievously while
toting a video camera. Wonderful seeing
old friends! Great socializing, much catch-
ing up! So much so in fact that even when
called to the Jacob Dining Hall for dinner,
lively conversations continued en route.
Once there, we commandeered a few
tables off to one side, pushed them
together with the self-assuredness of those
who have come home to roost, and roost
we did! The well-attended buffet was
nicely laid out, with food and drink all too
tempting and plentiful. I feared that I
might need to be physically restrained
from returning an obscene number of
times to the seemingly inexhaustible
mound of steamed Ipswich clams and
molten butter that kept calling out to me
across the evening! The pace of the dinner
for all attendees was unrushed and
relaxed. Through it all, the Class of'65
talked on a matrix of mirth and merri-
ment, much of which was videotaped for
posterity by the ubiquitous Dr. Kane, and
thankfully so! Long after dessert had been
savored, and the other Reunion classes
had moseyed off to the various Class par-
ties at assorted venues across campus, the
Class of '65 opted to stay put. When
finally nudged out of the Dining Hall by
the very patient crew of student volun-
teers, we lingered still in the Phillips
entryway, where the evening and conver-
sations wound down-not, however, with-
out a final irrepressible flourish of
Greasies just for old times' sake! Saturday
presented more events, not the least of
which was the Glee Club concert in
Moseley Chapel in which Al Chase's
many talents were again showcased.
Saturday found additional classmates pre-
sent: Brad Dorsey, Annie Morton and
Sandy and Bill Russell. Following the
concert, luncheon was served where once
again tables were pushed together to
accommodate most, if not all, of us in an
animated cluster. Indeed, certain of our
luncheon attendees were still visiting with
one another at these tables up to 5:15 p.m.
when it was time to migrate to the
Pescosolido Field House patio to join the
other classes for a cocktail party and photo
sessions. (The Field House is a truly
impressive facility, for those of you who
have not seen it!) The first GDA Dinner
and Dancing Extravaganza in the Alumni
Gymnasium-replete with multiple,
amply-stocked food and drink stations,
together with the talented dance band,
Topaz-turned out to be a great success-a
fitting finale for fellow classmates and
their loved ones as Reunion '95 drew to a
close. T Given this overview of the week-
end, I gratefully include the following
vignettes and observations submitted by
our new Class Agent (and Video
Archivist), Jeff Kane: "Contrary to all
expectations, Dave Sullivan, accompanied
by Elizabeth, did not run the Pie Race, and
instead compared notes with Eric Shepard
regarding who has had more arthroscopic
knee surgeries. Dudley Glover,
undaunted as ever, with partner Jerie,
showed the other classes a step or two on
the dance floor. Not that Mark Starr and
Karen didn't have some smooth moves of
their own, whilst John Haydon an daugh-
ter Nora (a GDA '00-as in 2000!-hopeful)
also put on a show. Scott Magrane arrived
Friday, but left Saturday afternoon, appar-
ently in an effort to pull ahead of Eric
Shepard in the most-frequent-flyer-miles
category. Eric presumably regained the
lead the following Wednesday with
another trip to Paris. Speaking of which,
Faisal Al-Qatami is said to be residing in
the City of Love, but no confirmed sight-
ings have been reported. Brad Dorsey
made an appearance Saturday afternoon,
and Arnie Morton arrived in time for the
evening festivities. Ken Linberg arrived in
Bean Town several days in advance, no
doubt to fortify himself for the event, and
remained in the area several days after, no
doubt to recover. Chet Parasco upheld the
dignity of our class, despite efforts by
some to revive a '65 mainstay: i.e.,
Greasies: The Next Generation. Lex
Brody made the trek from California, man-
aging to arrive in Byfield driving a car
with New York license plates. Tony
Knapp managed the trek to Byfield from
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Newbury. A fiddler from rooftop New
York, who had an uncanny resemblance to
Al Chase, appeared in the Glee Club per-
formance, and was at other times seen in
the company of Susan Chase. And-can
you believe it?— Bill Russell came out of
retirement! Not only that, but also accom-
panied by wife Sandy who is EDD
October 16! (More to follow.) No Shows:
In '90, it was rumored that Nicksie was en
route from Maine in an antique car. The
car must be quite antiquated, as it has not
yet been sighted in By field. If it doesn't
arrive by the next go-round, a search-and-
rescue team will be formed. Henry opted
out to attend a wedding-not his own-as
verified by Bart (faxed copy of invite is on
file at Newsweek). The Little Giraffe also
opted out and instead attended the com-
mencement of Worcester Academy, where
he is Headmaster. Frilly and son are
rumored to have set a GDA record for
most golf courses and pubs visited in
Scotland, and apparently missed the turn
to Byfield on their flight back to Santa
Barbara. Brownie, previously considered
the Iron Man of Reunions, saw his atten-
dance streak end, possibly having been
diverted by a visit to Maine's infamous
Roadkill Cafe, or else having hitched a
ride with Nicksie. Next Reunion: can it
really be in 2000? Val Wilkie has "cor-
dially invited" everyone to attend.
Respectfully submitted by Jeff Kane,
newly elected Class Agent-the conse-
quence of leaving the room when a voting
quorum is present. Beware, for some day,
when you least expect it, your phone may
ring, or you may hear a knock at your
door, and someone may say, 'What have
you done for GDA, lately?' " ▼ Our
thanks, Jeff, for all your efforts on behalf
of the Reunion, before, during and after!
We know that the post of Class Agent is in
yet another pair of hard working hands. I
know I speak for us all when acknowledg-
ing and expressing our collective gratitude
to Craig Johnson for 10 strong and enthu-
siastic years of service as Class Agent.
Personally, it has been a joy working with
another who has such appreciation and
devotion to the Academy. Freed of these
former responsibilities, I have high hopes
of seeking his help in extracting news
from the rest of you-not an easy task, but
a very worthwhile one.... In closing, I can
only attempt to convey the shock and sad-
ness we have felt learning of the death of a
very special and unique member of our
class, /. Borden Anderson. We shall miss
him.
James H. Hallas '70 Has
Two New Books
Prolific author James H. Hallas
'70 has had two non-fiction books, both
on war history, published in the past year.
The Devil's Anvil: The
Assault on Peleliu is an account of the
U.S. 1st Marine Division's assault on an
obscure coral island 500 miles east of the
Phillipines during World War II. The sec-
ond volume, Squandered Victory, con-
cerns the American 1st Army at St.
Mihiel in World War I.
Hallas, who lives in Portland,
CT, with his wife Deborah and their two
sons, is the publisher of The
Glastonbury Citizen and The
Rivereast News Bulletin in
Glastonbury, CT. Both books were pub-
lished by Praeger Books.
'67
Bennett H. Beach
Secretary
7207 Denton Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 951-9643
'66
Secretary Needed
30th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
David Hartz: "A year ago I moved from
North Carolina to southern California to
join the Jesus Film Project. Am involved
in the training and equipping of teachers
in the former Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe on how to teach the curriculum
'Morality & Ethics-A Foundation to
Society' It is a Judeo-Christian curricu-
lum, and we have trained over 30,000
teachers in the last three-and-a-half years
in ten countries." T Jim Keeler: "My wife
Regina and I moved to the Chadd's Ford
area of SE Pennsylvania last fall. I am
now working for Himont, the largest man-
ufacturer of polypropylene ("plastic")
resin, as Market Development Manager
for their catalloy business venture. We are
looking forward to enjoying the many cul-
tural attractions in the Philadelphia/
Wilmington area." T Michael Little:
"Just finished up a Master of Science in
Environment Administration through
Autioch New England Graduate School,
Keene, NH." T Jack Trickey: "Had a
busy summer traveling to exotic places
like Butte, MT, and Worlund, WY, and
some fun spots such as Seattle and
Denver. Keep drinking that Hawaiian
Punch. Will be starting an addition to the
barn in September. Children are growing
and all is well in Pelham, MA."
Bill Alfond reports that his son Reis has
made the Soccer National Olympic
Development Team for the under-15 set,
meaning he's one of the top 100 players
born in 1980. T You may not have
thought much of Rich Brayton's room in
Phillips II, but Interiors magazine has
named Rich "Designer of the Year"for
1996. He is now competing for work on
the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin. T
August 28 was the due date for Stanley
Greenberg's next child. Meanwhile,
daughter Forest has begun high school.
Congratulations can be e-mailed to 766-
46.1617@compuserve.com. T Jay Marsh
will be doing a lot of the work himself on
a new house he and Charlene are building
in Little Rock. When he's done with that
project, Jay plans to get back to work on
restoration of a 1967 Jaguar roadster. Jay's
real job is economic consulting; lawyers
hire him to testify to money damages. ▼
PhotoShop and some of the other desktop
publishing software produced by Adobe
Systems is tested by Web Pearce, working
out of San Jose. Web's e-mail address is
wpearce@adobe.com. t Bradlee's went
into Chapter 11 in July, but Phil Finn is
working away trying to help right the
ship. He and his family are very happy to
be living in Hingham, Rich Crawford's
former stomping grounds, and they got
out in the sailboat, with a cooler full of
Moxie, as often as possible last summer, t
Mick Doolittle's athletic genes passed.
All three daughters are making their
marks in sports, as well as in Girl Scout
activities and in the classroom. T Don
Gay nailed down two honors in 1995:
Man of the Year for Michigan (voted by
U.S. Lacrosse Association) and Michigan
Lacrosse Coach of the Year. Don is a vet-
eran coach at University of Detroit Jesuit
High School. He continues to sing and
The Headmaster: Peter W. Bragdon engages Justin
Alfond, son of hosts ]oan and Bill Alfond '67, dur-
ing the pre-Pops reception at the Alfonds ' home.
Joining them at center is Parents' Fund co-Chair
Judy Gore P '95 '97.
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Class Notes
play guitar, mostly with church-based
organizations, and he is a program analyst
for Chrysler. Don has to help make sure
the right parts get to the right plants at the
right time. T The bank merger and acqui-
sition frenzy sweeping the nation blew
into Stuart, FL, and George Swift now
works for Bank of America. Same duties,
same title. George and family recently
moved from Stuart to nearby Palm City. ▼
The Texas years are over for Fred
Burchsted. He has left the University of
Texas for his North Shore homeland and
can now be found in Salem. More news
later. ▼ Another big move: Keith Adolph,
from the Atlanta area back to San Mateo,
CA. Forget any plans you had to visit
Keith during the Olympics. Details to fol-
low. T Bill Haggerty is a director of the
International Precious Metals Institute,
and Art Sager's course helped him handle
presentation of a paper on derivatives and
precious metals. Son Michael (5' 10" and
still on the way up) is a lineman on the
high school freshman team, and he and
Bill spent a week last summer canoeing on
the Saco River in Maine. ▼ Ben Beach's
Boston Marathon streak is still alive. He
completed his 28th in a row in 2:39 (172nd
place) and is now preparing for the 100th
marathon in April.
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'69
Carl F. Spang, Jr.
Secretary
55 Wiswall Road
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 659-5936
Jeffrey L. Gordon
Secretary
Slocum, Gordon & Co.
P.O. Box 669
Newport, RI 02840
(401) 849-4900
Nat Follansbee writes that he was married
(second time around) in July in Millbrook,
NY, where his bride Sally lives with her
three children. She is a teacher at
Dutchess Day School, while Nat remains
Director of Development at Loomis
Chaffee in Windsor, CT. Nat had two sons
from his first marriage, so together it
sounds like the Brady Bunch, t Rick
Robins recently bought into a fast-grow-
ing pine furniture business and is
involved as Operations Manager on both
the production and administrative side.
His four-year-old son Eric continues to be
the "best thing in my life." ▼ Jon
Williams and his wife Mary made their
annual pilgrimage east to Connecticut
from Denver for some serious water-ski-
ing. In a counter-trend move, they bought
Faraway gathering: Headmaster Peter W. Bragdon, Academic Dean Brian P. Lenane '72, Director of
Development Karen McGinley and GDA friends, family and alumni join host Paitoon Maneepaiwj '74 (sixth
from right) at a GDA reception in Bangkok, Thailand this spring. Included in this photograph are Punjaporn
Chotechurangkool P'98 with daughter "Nick" (fourth and fifth from left) and Pongsatorn Suksangium '81 and
Manit Suwathep '75 (fourth and fifth from right).
a piece of property in Connecticut for an
eventual vacation home; this, while every-
one else is moving to Colorado! In
between bouts of work now and then, Jon
was also recently spotted sailing off San
Diego in July. ▼ Jack Connelly writes that
his biggest news is the arrival of his
daughter Sophie in November, who joins
two older brothers Alex (eight) and Silas
(six). Soccer continues to be a family affair
for Jack as he and his wife Terri co-coach
their two sons' soccer teams, and both
play on a co-ed adult team and on indi-
vidual men's and women's teams. On a
recent trip back home, Jack and family
also got to spend some time with Billy
Clyde and his wife Kathy at a soccer
workshop in Chicago. ▼ Gary Martin has
four children and an expanding orthope-
dic practice to keep him busy. In keeping
with the medical profession's tradition of
conventions, he expects to escape to Rome
this fall for this year's outing. T Ned
Lattime has just been promoted to
Professor of Medicine in the Division of
Neoplastic Diseases at the Thomas
Jefferson Medical College. He has also
been appointed to a national scientific
review panel for the American Cancer
Society. ▼ Sheldon Sacks has given up
plans for opening a dental clinic next to
every McDonald's on the globe, and has
begun doing what he should have done
years ago: coach a baseball team! Except
in this case, it's softball for his eight-year-
old daughter. He can now understand
how Many Sargent went bald prema-
turely. Shel's golf game continues to teeter
on the edge of single-digit handicap, but
he is looking for a lesson or two from Tim
Tenney to bring his score permanently
lower. Shel, as if he hasn't got enough
snow in upstate New York, headed off to
Colorado and Vermont to ski with his
three children, Dylan (three), Rachel (five)
and Samantha (eight). Shel looks great
these days in stretch pants. ▼ Jeff Gordon
adds that number one daughter Meredith
graduated magna cum laude from Groton
last year, and was the captain of the (New
England champion) field hockey and
lacrosse teams. She will be going to Yale
this fall. Number two daughter Hope will
be a sophomore this fall at Groton, where
she is continuing the same athletic tradi-
tion, playing both varsity field hockey and
varsity lacrosse as a freshman. She and
her sister had fun assisting each other on
the attack. My son Brooks will be a sev-
enth-grader at our school here in
Newport, where I have been President of
the Board of Trustees for the last eight
years. I find myself at GDA often and am
very excited about the projects our Board
is tackling in the form of two new build-
ings. ▼ I have seen John O'Leary recently
on a trip to Newport to watch the U.S.
Amateur Golf Tournament played here
this summer. T Also, David Forbes and
his wife Julie have been down to visit in
Newport to consult on some landscape
design they have been doing at our house
over the years.
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J. Randall Whitney III
Secretary
65 Nashoba Road
Concord, MA 01742
(508) 369-0914
Edgar S. Catlin III
Secretary
45 Meadowbrook Road
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 729-3488
25th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
William Litchfield writes, "Business has
been growing. I'm President of
Litchfield's Enterprises, which presently
owns Litchfield's, a popular restaurant,
and have plans on developing a function
facility to accommodate the area."
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Geoffrey A. Durham
Secretary
504 Roosevelt Drive
Libertyville, IL 60048
(708) 549-8407
Richard J. Love
Secretary
23 Merrimack Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 228-1530
Pamela J.M. Toner
Secretary
223 Riverside Drive
Fairfield, CT 06430
(203) 254-2371
I hope everyone had a fun summer. It
sure was beach weather! ▼ Courtney
Wang came north from Dallas for some
cooler weather with his daughter An
Rhiel, now three years old. He has started
his own internet provider company called
Online Today and he can be reached via e-
mail at wang@onlinetoday.com. ▼ Jim
Leighton writes that he is still living in
Westford, MA. He and Adrian are sailing
out of Beverly, MA, and they celebrated
their son Tyler's first birthday on May 5th.
Tyler started sailing at four weeks old! T
If you are in the Stamford, CT, area, Tom
Huff smith invites you to visit. He moved
from Pennsylvania to Connecticut a week
before Christmas last year and is still with
Lasalle Advisors in New York. His pro-
jects include the Times Square redevelop-
ment and hotel investment /asset
management. He can be reached at work
at (212) 503-1599. T Please welcome our
unofficial Reunion chairman for our 25th
gala bash-Tim Statler. Thank you, Tim
for sending photos and assuming the role.
Mark your calendars, June 11 & 12, 1999.
Be there!
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Secretary Needed
Dirk Lyons: "I'm back in N. Woodstock,
NH, installing hydronic heat systems and
plumbing. Love being back up north!" T
Richard O'Leary: "After 14 years with J.
Walter Thompson, I am off to McCann
Erickson, another leading advertising
agency, to run the AT&T account. We now
live in Riverside, CT-a wonderful town.
Timmy is four-and-a-half and Sarah is
two." T Bud Rice: "I am now living in
Portland, OR, having been promoted to
engineering manager of U.S. West
Cellular's Oregon region. The rest of my
family is still in Seattle, and I drive home
on weekends."
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Carol Ann Goldberg-
Aydin
Secretary
301 East 94th Street, 24B
New York, NY 10128
(212) 410-1781
Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
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Carolyn L. Borwick
Secretary
271 Summer Avenue
Reading, MA 01867
(617) 942-7855
Ginny (Sutton) Hundley and her family
have just moved into their new home,
which they had built. She and her chil-
dren spent the summer on Thompson
Lake in Poland, ME, and she'll be back to
teaching aerobics this fall. Her son Tyler
starts kindergarten this fall. T Shelly
(Miller) Daigle and her husband cele-
brated their fourth wedding anniversary
in August. She is still enjoying her work
at Mass General Hospital. T
Congratulations to Beth Kannan and her
husband Jim Spiegelman on the birth of
Jack on June 29. Jack weighed 9 lbs., 5 1/2
oz. They are adjusting to parenthood.
Beth, I hope you survived the heat this
summer! You and I sure picked the
hottest summer yet to have our babies! T
Mike Tulloch attended his father's 45th
GDA Reunion this past June. He said he
really enjoyed listening to the "war sto-
ries" of his dad and his classmates. Mike's
son David (six) is starting first grade this
fall and Bennett (three) is having all the
fun he can prior to beginning his school-
ing. Susan and Mike are both well and
planned on seeing Dave Bell, his wife Jean
and son Daniel at the end of August. T
Andrew Sterge is President of
BNP/CooperNeff Advisors, Inc., a propri-
etary trading subsidiary of Banque
Nationale de Paris. He has two sons,
Nicholas and Jesse. T Geoffrey and I had
our second child Sarah on June 9. She
weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. I've enjoyed having
the summer off and am heading back to
work after Labor Day.
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Scott M. Pope
Secretary
25 Tidewater Farm Road
Greenland, NH 03840
(603) 436-2903
In the event you responded to my request
for news, sent a card or letter to my house
and you do not see your notes in this
issue, fear notl I will be mailing out a letter
to coincide with The Archon mailing to
give you all the class news to the extent
that I know it. My Class Secretary letter
and "Don't Be Shy" cards were late in get-
ting to you relative to the deadline for this
article. Forgive me. I would like to thank
in advance all of you who took the time to
write me! And for those who did not
write... well... this is a family subscription
and profane name-calling would not be
appropriate. T I received a letter from
Kelly (fames) Coleman. She writes, "I
occasionally see Leslie (Russell) Lafond at
a wedding or a cookout, which is a sur-
prise, seeing that both our husbands work
for the Liquor Commission and were best
friends growing up! Kind of strange-I've
been busy with my 76 children! I have a
daughter named Kali who is eight years
old and take care of 75 other children, ages
six months to five years old, whom I con-
sider my own. I am the Assistant Director
at Little Blessing Day Care and preschool
teacher here in Portsmouth. I am celebrat-
ing a 10-year anniversary at Little Blessing
Day Care and my 10th wedding anniver-
sary this month! My life is full of kids,
and I love every (almost every) minute of
it! I hope to make to next Reunion! Say
'Hi' to everyone from the Class of '78." T
Kelly, I have three things to say to you: 1.
We are putting you and Leslie in charge of
all liquor purchases for all class events; 2.
That is terrific news of your dual anniver-
sary celebrations. Congratulations; and
lastly, 76 children. ..are you insane?! ▼ I
tried telephoning Rolf Dammann at his
work in Washington, D.C. My sources
said he was a legislative assistant to
Congresswomen Helen Bentley's office.
The telephone was disconnected and D.C.
information had no idea who she was.
Rolf, legislative assistant sounds important,
but were you really in Washington?
Where are you? T I left a phone message
for Peter Hey at work. Like all good pas-
tors, he was on vacation. I heard he was
doing an exorcism in the Winnipesaukee
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area. Trying to mix business with plea-
sure, eh, Pete? Look up Tad Higgins when
you are in Wolfeboro! T I also caught
Tad's answering machine.. .left my work
number, but haven't heard a word. Tad, I
attempted to contact you at work with no
luck. Drop me a line or call! T Jim
Goodhart, I tried calling you, but like a
good sneak, I only talked to your Mom.
We had a very nice discussion about "her
Jimmv!" She informed me you have left
her number as the active contact number
for all your GDA calls. Nice guy, Jim.
You can run, but you can't hide! I will
keep your number private and protected
from GDA fund-raising calls. Goodie:
call me! t I left a message on Peter
Jenkins voice mail. No return call yet, but
I did establish that Peter is now in the
International Marketing Department for
Boston Scientific. Good for you, Peter.
Now, get off you butt and drop me a
line. T I caught up with Dr. Allen
Leakey's wife Kathy Quite honestly
Allen, I'm glad I spoke to her instead of
you. What a lovely person! Pleasant,
energetic. You were on the golf course
with plans to take that next day off. A
physician's work is never done, Allen! ▼
I had a fun, long conversation with Chris
Latham'. He told me my letter has not yet
arrived, but was not surprised, as New
York City has a bunch of heroin addicts
delivering the mail! Chris is a professional
photographer, currently doing book pub-
lishing work, editorial photography for
companies like Simon & Schuster. During
Chris' early career, he was working with
professional models like Cindy Crawford
in the fashion industry. Chris rattled off
other notable names, but somehow I only
remembered one. After spending over ten
years in his career, Chris is taking his
blended experiences and re-addressing his
interest in fashion. I very much enjoyed
visiting with you, Chris. You have a great
sense of humor! ▼ Before I continue with
more class news, I would like to suggest a
few class gathering ideas: Fall time gath-
ering in Portsmouth/Greenland at my
house-a Saturday afternoon in October
with a hamburger /hot dog cookout. We
overlook Great Bay and have a large pond
with some good size bass for the children
to catch, should you choose to include
them. Our home is within a 1 /4 mile of
the Sandy Point/Great Bay estuary, which
features a beautiful nature trail and new
educational center. The second gathering
idea would be around the month of
February in North Conway for a weekend
of skiing. Tom Driscoll also suggested this
as a good idea. Great minds think alike.
Obviously, great ideas need active partici-
pation. I am not asking for volunteers (I'll
call you if I want you). I am only asking
you to make a commitment to be there if
you physically can be. Please consider
it! T I had another long, fun conversation
with Tom Driscoll with a with a follow up
faxed letter for this issue. Since both my
conversation and his faxed letter were
very humorous, I must recite his letter in
its entirety. "Scott, life as an attorney is
nothing compared to chasing a two-year-
old around. Thomas Francis has the
energy of a halfback, but I think he is des-
tined to be an offensive tackle. Tara tells
me to be prepared to have him play soc-
cer. I'll send him off to live with Slater if
that is his decision. Higgins living on a
mountain; too many trips to the bluffs as a
teenager. Steph looking for a job teaching
in Maine. Do they have schools in Maine?
Suggs teaching at GDA. Perfect! He was
always so preppy! Dateline Ho-Chi-Minh
City: USA, Vietnam review relations.
Clinton names Peter Feith Ambassador.
Everything going well at Gordon, Moore,
Primason and Bradley. The North Shore's
full-service law firm. My sixth season
coaching Pop Warner football is under-
way. The E-Squad was 7-0-1 last season,
but we are a little raw this year. Jerry
Garcia's untimely death must have cut
into James Goodhart 's tee-shirt business.
On the other hand, it may have helped!
Ran into Ben Collins '77 last weekend. He
is working for a Republican lobbying
group, which turned my Democratic
stomach. I have to run; someone just got
into a car accident downstairs, and I want
to be there first! See ya." Thanks, Tom for
your letter and return call. I will keep you
up to speed as the fall gathering comes
together, t Well, folks, this is the news to
date. Write/call. Keep me laughing and
I'll try to do the same.
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Laura J. Roome
Secretary
917 Heatherstone Drive
Winston-Salem, NC
27104
(910) 659-8199
Lis Sapuppo writes, "Still in
Massachusetts, but taking a break from
the city life-busy building my retirement
home in northern New Hampshire and
moving along at a good pace this summer.
I'll be training for 100th Boston Marathon
next spring." t Martha Blake Ficke con-
tinues to teach first grade and takes
advantage of the summers off to spend
with sons Andrew (four) and Dylan (one)
at the beach. She writes, "Congratulations
to Andy Linn\ Hope you are happy!" ▼
From Falmouth, ME: Kathy Coffin
Hourihan and her husband Dan are gen-
eral contracting another house, while
daughter Lauren and son Jared prepare
for the fourth and second grades. With a
new puppy joining the Lab, three cats and
a rabbit, Kathy' s busy with pet hair. T
Amelia Kennard Woodworth has joined
father Avery Woodworth 's Byfield farm,
and life there is reportedly wonderful.
When Avery isn't busy running his own
construction business, he takes time to
relax with Caleb (five-and-a-half), Eliza
(three-and-a-half) and now Amelia (two
months) as well as building a barn. T I
have left Belk Department Stores and now
work for K-Mart. The quality of life is so
much better. Last January, I adopted a
Lab-mix puppy to fill my house, and
Winni (named for New Hampshire's Lake
Winnipesaukee) keeps me on my toes.
Please keep you news coming.
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Erica J. Goode
Secretary
74 R Thaxter Street
Hingham, MA 02043
(617) 749-7284
Great to hear from so many old friends. ▼
Liz Evans had a baby girl, Sarah Atler
Coler, on March 1st. Her son Garrett is
three and starting pre-school in the fall.
She just accepted a job as Senior Vice
President-Mortgage Acquisitions with
Metropolitan Bank. T Carol Sterge Gluek
wrote to say she's going on ten years as an
Assistant Vice President at Key Trust Co.
of Ohio. She has two kids-five-year-old
Jessica and two-year-old Louis (Gus). She
says "Hi"to Ginger! t Ginger Bushell
says she was married last September to
Christopher Barnes, an attorney They
bought a home in May in Studio City, CA,
and she was just promoted to Vice
President of Business Planning and
Analysis, r Ken Mahler wrote to say he
was also married last fall (November) to
Tami Lynn Knapp, and they're expecting
their first child in mid-October. He was
sorry he missed the Reunion. ▼ Kevin
Callahan writes, "Life has changed a bit...
I got married to Kathi and recently had a
beautiful, healthy daughter Kelly. I am
currently working in Hartford for
Shawmut Investment Advisors, but there
is a possibility I could be moving to
Boston. I keep in touch with Lia
McCarthy, who works for Shawmut Bank
in Greenwich; she got married in March. I
also stay in touch with Jim Gardner, Jeff
Bailly and Brian Rourke. I hear that Nick
Taylor is in Denver. Is it time for a ski
trip?" T Bruce Tallman and his wife
42 The Archon- Fall! 995
Karen recently had their second child.
Eric Bruce Tallman was born on June 12,
1995. Bruce also recently joined a rheuma-
tology practice in Springfield, MA. T
Tony Tommasi writes, "It has been a long
time. I live in Brichtown, NJ, with my
wife Anne-Marie, five-year-old daughter
Danielle, and 14-month-old son Antonio,
Jr. I am an officer with the Monmouth
County Sheriffs Department." ▼ David
Callan writes, "I have just moved into a
new condo at Rhowes Wharf in Boston
with my fiancee Lorri. We have a May
1996 wedding planned and are happy to
announce a new baby in June. I am a con-
sultant with Perrini Corp, working on the
Big Dig project. My new hobby is
NASCAR racing. I will be in the Winston
Cup Goodi 500 at Bristol, TN, on August
26, 1995. Look forward to seeing class-
mates soon." ▼ John Fain just returned
from a short trip to the San Juan Islands.
He lost his mother in April to cancer, but
was fortunate enough to be with her,
along with the rest of his family at her
bedside. T I had a great time at the
Reunion, seeing some of my old friends.
My two girls (Madeline two and three-
quarters years old and Lily, 16 months) are
the smartest, most beautiful girls there are!
I'm still at Boston University doing special
events and working from home half the
week.
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Jennifer G. Steward
Secretary
715 Main Street
Boxford, MA 01921
(508) 352-7694
15th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
Thank you to everyone who took the time
to be in touch this summer. I can't tell you
how much I anticipated and enjoyed get-
ting the mail each day as your postcards
and notes arrived! I hope we can continue
to grow in our awareness of each others'
activities. It would be wonderful to be up-
to-date before our Reunion this coming
June. T Richard Aranosian writes that he
is, "Still single and living the good life in
sunny Tampa, FL. Currently I am study-
ing computer programming at a local col-
lege. I look forward to seeing all of my
classmates at next year's Reunion." ▼
Charlie Bougas' wife Laurie took time to
write in on his behalf. Charlie is very
busy with New England Meat Market, Inc.
He opened his second store in January.
Charlie is justifiably feeling very proud as
one of his stores was named "Best of
Boston Butcher" by Boston Magazine.
Laurie writes that their children,
Christopher (six) and Alison (four) are
A special day: GDA friends came together in June for the wedding of Nolden Johnson '85 to Beth Griffis on
Martha's Vineyard. From left, standing are Quinn Pollock '85, Aileen Causing with bestman Michael Graf
'84, Nolden and Beth Johnson, Justin Feingold '86 with his wife Lisa, and Frank Graf '56, P'84 with his wife
Joan. Sitting are Jenny Graf Steward '81, her daughter Abigail and husband Chris.
also thriving. According to Laurie,
Charlie is "struggling to balance family,
two stores and golf, and doing a great
job." t Rob Breed and wife Heather
Corey celebrated the birth of their
third-another son!-this summer. Baby
Elijah Corey Breed, born August 8th, joins
brothers Zachary (four) and Nicholas
(two). Congratulations to all! T Clarissa
Dane Davidson writes, "Things are incred-
ible! My marriage is going well-into our
third year. Husband Jim starred in the
CBS movie Crowfoot on June 7th. I fin-
ished my debut alternative rock album (a
drastic change!) under an alias name, and
it's on MTV, too. A miracle, and finally a
lot of fun." Congratulations, Clarissa!
Clarissa asked that special hellos be sent
to Lyn ("Where are you?"), Lisa and
Vinca. She also sends word that she saw
Peter Brandli at his sister's wedding and
that he is doing great. T Life seems to be
treating David Brown and wife Caty very
well. Sons Coleman (three) and Peter
(one) keep them very busy. David works
for a commercial real estate brokerage and
management company, selling land, repre-
senting developers and marketing busi-
ness and industrial sites to prospective
tenants. Dave and Caty made a trip from
their home in Beaverton, OR, to attend
Keller Laros' wedding. The wedding, an
early June celebration in Kona, HI, also
served as a nice "small GDA Reunion."
Larry Schwartz and his wife Kate, Mark
and Benay Todzo and David and Caty all
had a great time. T Cynthia Pfeiffer
Horner is doing well. She and husband
Doug are "Enjoying new-found time
together, now that a grueling internship in
family practice is over." She says that
while she loves her work, she misses
dearly the time to just chill out and have
fun. "No family yet-hopefully once Doug
and I have had time just for the two of us.
Maybe in a year or two. Give my love to
Laurie Krooss and Joanne Leary." T I
received a wonderful letter from Lisa
Louden bringing me up to date on career
changes and a move from southern
Florida to Charlotte, NC, where she is liv-
ing now. She sends hellos to Jennifer
Schaeffner and Clarissa and hopes to
make it to our 15th ("yikes, where does
time go?!"). T Tracey (Meehan) O'Dea
and her husband James had their first son,
Conor Thomas, on January 11, 1995. T
Kathy O' Leary is working for a wine dis-
tributor, which keeps her busy. I enjoyed
a nice conversation with Kath and got to
catch up quite a bit. It sounds as though
life is treating her very well in
Charlestown. She enjoys being an aunt to
three nieces and six nephews, all of whom
she says she doesn't see enough. She is
still in touch with quite a few classmates,
and enjoyed a great time at Robert
Sudduth's wedding this past June.
Congratulations to Robert! T Susan Perry
sends word that, "Life is great at Phillips
Andover." I know from trying to get
together that Susan keeps very busy.
When we spoke last, she said she loves
teaching and coaching. T Claire Putnam
writes, "I have a new job, still at Harvard,
but I'm now working at the Center for
International Affairs. I'm really enjoying
the change. It is a really interesting job." T
Michael Reilly dropped a note from
Charlestown, MA, where he is living with
his girlfriend Diane. Mike has been a divi-
sion manager at Bardon Trimount for
eight years now and continues to serve in
the Army National Guard ("12 years' ser-
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Class Notes
vice-can you believe it!?") With all these
responsibilities, Mike, as always, still
makes time for recreation: "I enjoy run-
ning, brewing beer, reading and playing
tic-tac-toe." ▼ Jennifer Malamud
Schaeffner recently left Fidelity
Investments after eight years of service to
join Shawmut National Corp. as V.P. of
Retail Investment Sales. She and husband
Bob are living in Swampscott, MA,
"Spending time and money on our
house-it never ends! Looking forward to
our 15th." T Kellie and Chris Teel are liv-
ing in Tulsa, OK, where they have been for
the past two-and-a-half years. Kellie
writes, "We have added another member
to our family. Paige is now two, along
with Brogan (five) and Sean (seven). Chris
loves his job as quality manager at NMP
Corp., and I am home-schooling second
grade and kindergarten. We try to get to
Maine every summer to escape the 100-
degree heat." ▼ E. Dabney Friend Tonelli
sent word that she is working at Keystone
Investments in Boston. Husband Stefano
is completing his architecture studies at
Rhode Island School of Design. They
managed to fit in what sounds like a won-
derful vacation: "We spent a couple of
weeks in Italy, traveling around and visit-
ing friends, including Barbie Riggs (GDA
Class of '79 exchange student), who came
over from London and met us on Lake
Maggiore. Had a great time." ▼ Life is
going well for Mark Whitney and wife
Mary Anne. Son Richard is now 17
months old and very talkative. I know
from first-hand viewings that Richard is a
joy. Having passed the Bar last summer,
Mark is enjoying work at the McLane Law
Firm in Manchester, NH.
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'83
'84
Nancy Lord Wickwire
Secretary
33 Caron Road
Bedford, NH 03110
(603) 472-8993
Rebecca B. Lapham
Secretary
34 Essex House
6 Beverly Commons
Drive
Beverly, MA 01915
(508) 922-8731
Cathleen A. Riley
Scerbo
Secretary
360 High Street
Hampton, NH 03842
(603) 926-407
Up and away: Naval aviator Greg Friedman '86 stands
flight deck in front of his F-14 Tomcat.
First, as promised, news from Hank
Friedman. He writes that he had a great
time at the tenth and indicated that Mike
Leary is as funny as ever. He's seen Ben
Armstrong '85 a couple of times. Last
summer, Hank also saw Courtney
Church '85 when he reff-ed her fiance's
playoff lacrosse game. "Small world."
Hank had reconstructive surgery in March
after blowing out his left knee again.
Hope you are doing better now! He was
planning on moving back to Taos, NM,
this summer, permanently. Are you there
yet, Hank? ▼ Chrissy Romboletti writes
that she and husband Brian and their dog
Jefferson were heading to
Emerald Island in North
Carolina for a week's vaca-
tion, barring Hurricane Felix's
arrival. I hope you managed
to beat the storm. It was a
bad one down there. Chrissy
is loving not being a student
anymore and has spent her
summer by the pool with lots
of fun reading.
Congratulations on your
graduation! She sends her
best to the Class of '84. t
Georgia Wattendorf Guiney
sent me a really nice letter.
Georgia's daughter Olivia
turned one on August 27th,
and she writes that she is
expecting her second the
beginning of December.
Congratulations! I hope you
are feeling well! Georgia is at
on the home now full-time with
Olivia and is planning to get
her teacher's certificate so that she can
teach once her children are in school. She
sounds very happy and writes, "The best
thing I ever did was become a mom!" You
certainly have the right idea. Georgia still
sees Karen Gronberg '83 quite a bit, as
Karen is dating a friend of Georgia's hus-
band and they are predicting wedding
bells for them soon! Please send my best
to Karen! Finally, Georgia sends her best
to everyone! Let us know when the baby
arrives! ▼ FJ Ventre also sent me a nice
letter with all the news from his life. He
writes that he finished his degree finally
last year ("better late than never!"), and its
official title is Bachelor of Music
Performance with an Emphasis on Sound
Recording. I'd really like to see that on
your diploma. He is working for the
Young Chang Research and Development
Institute, which designs products for
Kurzweil Music Systems, as a Soundware
Engineer. He writes, "I get to digitally
record, twist, squash and otherwise man-
gle natural sounds in order to make them
playable on a keyboard." It certainly
sounds impressive! FJ is also playing the
bass locally (Waltham) and lately in a
band called The Invaders in and around
Boston. He recently played with some
guys from local band O-Positive on a com-
pilation CD called This is Boston, not Austin
on the Black Wolf label. FJ sends his
regards "to anyone who cares to have
them, especially David Gould\" Thanks
for your letter! I really enjoyed hearing
from you. Please keep in touch once
you're famous. ▼ Dan and I did manage
to have a mini-reunion with a few old
GDA pals. Elizabeth Kimball Williams,
with three-year-old Owen and five-month-
old Graham (born 3/1/95) in tow, and
Kathie Lambert Watt with nine-month-
old Natalie and 28-year-old Gill in tow,
came by for a barbecue this month. It was
so great seeing them and meeting the new
family members, although Gill was con-
stantly checking my house for recorders
and videos. I had to promise not to reveal
any embarrassing news they shared in The
Archon. So the "family version" is simply
that Kathie is enjoying being a full-time
mom to Natalie and she and Gill have a
house with a weird dining room in Acton.
We also indulged in Cheese Cake
Company goodies thanks to Kathie.
Elizabeth was returning from a couple of
weeks stay with her family in Maine. Her
son Owen was fascinated with our dogs,
and Graham is absolutely the most con-
tent baby. She is doing terrifically in
England with husband Alan and their two
boys, but insists that there is still plenty of
room for visitors and asked me to please
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extend an invitation to all classmates trav-
eling in Europe. Liz is already planning
her trip home next summer, and we had
such a good time catching up this year
that we had hoped to get together again
next year (and would love to have any of
you join us). ▼ I also spoke with Kim
Grillo, who is still very busy being a
lawyer in Concord, NH, and with Amy
Welch '83, who just recently got engaged.
She and her fiancee are in school in
Vermont. ▼ As for my life, Dan and I con-
tinue to run in local races. We see Mr.
Abu and his daughter Use (Class of '93)
frequently. We are also still working on
our kitchen-rebuilding cabinets, wallpa-
pering, new floor, new counter, paint,
stenciling, etc. We are very close to finish-
ing, but it can't be soon enough for us. We
have managed to finish our den, and the
downstairs bathroom is all repainted and
wallpapered. Whenever I get discouraged
with my kitchen, I hang out in my bath-
room, although I feel kind of silly. We are
planning a vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC,
in October for a week or so with college
friends. It is a much needed vacation. We
have gotten down to Hampton Beach a
few times with my son Sean, who is now
15 months old. He loves running on the
sand and sinking his feet into the puddles.
He is now starting to talk a bit, which has
been a lot of fun for us. One of his first
words was "rock," for the rocking chair in
which he hangs out with my mother, not
for the "rock"in "rock and roll." Sorry, FJ!
My job is busy, although my Novell certifi-
cation program is on hold, as we are
migrating to Microsoft NT in the next 18
months. I guess I can't really knock the
free education on Microsoft programs,
though. They are everywhere. Has any-
one tried the new Windows 95 yet? That's
about it with us. Thanks to everyone who
wrote to me. Take care of yourselves and
keep in touch.
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Nathalie E. Ames
Secretary
2355 N. Commonwealth
Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
(312) 880-5614
Thanks to those of you who sent in your
reply cards. It sounds as if everyone is
having an exciting summer. ▼ Becky
Chase Werner writes, "Things are great
out here in the Northwest. Last week,
Mike and I camped through Banff and
Jasper (Canada) and Glacier National Park
in Montana with my folks. Tenting was a
little tougher this time, being six months
pregnant!" Congratulations, Becky and
Mike! T Dinah Daley also joined Becky's
family's camping adventure for the last
part of their vacation and went to several
Tivo in Tokyo: John von Wentzel '86 is joined by
Headmaster Peter W. Bragdon in Tokyo, Japan this
spring.
outdoor concerts in western Washington.
Dinah loves her house in Seattle, overlook-
ing the sound and Olympic mountains.
Dinah will be running and Becky will be
participating in the Mt. Hood-to-Oregon
coast 190-mile race in late August. Good
luck! ▼ Alex Konovalchik writes, "This
fall, I will begin my third year of teaching,
coaching and dorm parenting at Brooks
School. But more importantly, I will
become a father! Sheila and I are expect-
ing in January!" Congratulations, Alex and
Sheila! T Jennifer and Peter Condon are
living in Auke Bay, Alaska. They met at
the University of Oregon and were mar-
ried about a year ago. They are enjoying
life together up north, though Pete works
long hours at his environmental consulting
job. T Sean Mahoney and Ben Armstrong
have been hard at work starting a new
business. They are in the process of open-
ing up several video stores in the Boston
area that will compete with the larger
video chains. Stop by Big Planet Video
and help them get off to a good start! ▼
Jeff Kelly writes, "It was fun for me to see
everyone at Reunion. Last week, Michael
Terrile and I went to the Newburyport
Folk Festival where we saw Rob Turner
and Linda McCarthy. On campus, Moody
has been moved behind Cottage to make
way for the new library. If anyone passes
through By field, feel free to stop by." ▼
Michael Terrile is happy teaching art to
children in New Hampshire. He has
recently been in touch with Andrew
Webber, Jon Shain, Mike Redgate and oth-
ers. T Nolden Johnson got married the
same weekend as Reunion Weekend.
Quinn Pollock attended the wedding on
Nantucket Island. ▼ Laura and Peter
Quimby have a busy life. They have a
beautiful daughter named Laurie, and have
moved to Russia for a year. Peter is doing
research for his Ph.D. T Kate Kaplan Cook
couldn't make Reunion, but wanted to say
"Hi" to everyone. ▼ Victoria deLisle Blanks
attended Reunion in June. She has been
working hard at her law firm in New
Orleans. She and her husband are moving
to Amsterdam for several years for a job
opportunity It should be fun! Her new
address is: Herengracht 298, 1016 Bx
Amsterdam, Netherlands, phone: 011-31-
20-626-9306. T Jessica Gould writes, "As
many of you know (she told us at Reunion),
I have been accepted to the master's pro-
gram of business administration at the
University of Texas at Austin. It is a two-
year program. If you are planning to be in
Austin during that time, I will have an open
futon in my living room." Her new address
is: 1071 Clayton Lane, #1103, Austin, TX
78723. Phone: (512) 454-9865. r Raquel
Ardito-B arietta flew up from Panama for
the Reunion. She is doing very well with
her design business and has gotten married!
She was happy to see Victoria and
Stephanie D'Orazto Migliozzi and meet
Stephanie's beautiful daughter. ▼ Sam
Blatchford was very brave and brought
three out of four of his cute children to the
Reunion. He and his wife Ann-Marie have
moved to Maryland. ▼ It was wonderful to
see everyone and meet all the children at
the Reunion. Lissa and Andreiv Menyhart
flew up from Florida with their son
Nicholas; Anthony Fusco and his wife
Kathleen brought their new son Nicholas
for the day; Jon Nesbit and his wife brought
their son and daughter to the Saturday
evening festivities. T Katrina Russo
Ramsey and her husband Stephen came
from Vermont with their son Mitchell. The
Ramseys are awaiting the arrival of their
second child in February! Congratulations,
Katrina! ▼ Lisa Demeri is doing well! She
is living part-time in Rockport and part-
time in Boston and painting most of the
time. She and Mike Terrile had a wonderful
art exhibit during the Reunion. ▼ Anna
Hill is working part time at GDA and is
coaching lacrosse. T Diane Frangos-Walsh
is happily married to Mike and is teaching
art at Shore Country Day. ▼ I saw many
other people at the Reunion, including
Stephanie Gardner-Ginsberg and her hus-
band Scott; Rob Cloutier and his wife
Nicola, who came down from Vermont;
George Hasapidis, who helped me carry the
Class of '85 banner on Saturday; Doug Kirk,
who came out from Steamboat Springs, CO;
and Jeff Taft, who is working for a law firm
in Ohio. ▼ As for me, my daughter Laura
and I are having a fun summer. We had a
very relaxing time in Maine, which was
much needed. I am really sad that Jerry
Garcia died. I feel very fortunate that I was
able to attend their last concert in Chicago
on July 9th. He and the Grateful Dead repre-
The Archon- Fall 1995 45
Class Notes
sented a very special part of my life for
over 13 years. I have thought about many
of you over the last several weeks, and I
am sure you can relate to this loss, and I
hope you are doing O.K. A big thanks to
everyone who came to the Reunion. If
you did not attend and I have not heard
from you in a while, please drop me a
note. I'm not the only one who would
love to hear from you. Your classmates
would, too! Take care!
'86
Jennifer L. Dupre
Secretary
33R Yale Avenue
Wakefield, MA 01880
(617) 245-9646
10th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
This summer flew by as I was studying
for the bar exam. John Brennan, who
recently moved to Massachusetts from
California, was in my bar review class.
Hopefully, my days of studying are
behind me! Marc and I also attended Kim
Carey's wedding, where we saw many
GDA classmates. I look forward to hear-
ing what the rest of you are doing. Please
keep in touch! ▼ Kim Carey got married
on August 5, 1995 to Dale Rochford. Kim
and Dale honeymooned in Bermuda
when Hurricane Felix hit. They recently
moved into a new apartment in
Newton, t Pam (Bostrvick) Coakley and
her husband Bruce were blessed with a
beautiful baby boy named Jacob Daniel
on April 18, 1994. He weighed in at a
whopping 9 lbs., 8 oz. and at 22 inches.
(Had the height to go along with the
weight!) T Hedi Diir, after receiving a
master's in French, has returned from
Paris. She is hoping to find a teaching
position and settle down in
Massachusetts. ▼ Andrew Eaton got mar-
ried on May 27, 1995 to Paige Brennan.
He is living north of Chicago and is the
Director of Personal Training Program at
the Multiplex Health Club in Deerfield,
IL. Dave Miller '88 and Jill Packard '88
attended the wedding. He will have
another announcement in October! ▼
Greg Friedman is a Navy fighter pilot and
is currently flying an F-14 Tomcat. He fin-
ished training last September and was
sent on a cruise with the VF-51
"Screaming Eagles," on board the USS
Kittyhawk. He spent most of his time in
the Sea of Japan. Greg plans on attending
the Navy fighter weapons school in May
His wife Hannah and son Tyler are living
in San Diego. ▼ Vanessa Hunt recently
bought a new condo in North Andover.
She is a real estate specialist at Century 21
Carriage House in Andover and recently
rented George Liss a condo. She keeps in
touch with Margaret Asadoorian, Amy
Hefford and George. ▼ George recently
moved back from Florida to live in
Massachusetts. He got married in April to
Meighan Deluke, whom he met in college.
George is no longer playing on the golf
tour. He is working in sales for RGR
Logistics, Inc. ▼ Kim Mooney got
engaged over the summer to Tim
McNulty. She is currently living in
Cincinnati and working long hours as a
resident. ▼ Alex Marcidewicz is moving
to the Czech Republic to take a job as a
designer for the Prague Post, which is one
of the English language newspapers in
Prague. ▼ Last month, Tracy Beckett,
Tanya Curry and Monique Proulx met in
Washington, D.C., to catch up. They try to
get together at least once a year; the last
time was in Boston. The three of them are
planning to attend our 10th Reunion and
hope to see Melinda Stahl, Kelly Papin,
Liz Hackett, Vanessa Hunt, Noah Wendler,
Gene Taft, Bo Jones, Tim Nesbit and many
others. ▼ Tanya lives in New York and is
a broker for Morgan Stanley. ▼ Tracy is
living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,
working at the White House for the chief
of staff. Tracy is getting married on April
20, 1996 in Key West, FL. ▼ Monique just
moved from Burlington, VT, to Haverhill,
MA, to take over her father's equestrian
shop in Andover.
'87
Amy F. Mack
Secretary
12 Arnold Avenue, #1
Northampton, MA
01060
(413) 585-9432
Hello, all you Archon readers! Anxiously
awaiting all the latest news from your
classmates, huh? Well here it is. First, I
must report on the most successful, if mel-
low, mini-Boston alum reunion we man-
aged to have this past spring. Attendees
included Allison Richard, Lucy Armstrong
and brother Ben Armstrong '85, Diana
Stram (a little late... but so nice to see that
she's made it back safely from Africa!),
Jenn Todd, Kris Kobialka, Rob DeLena,
Kip Brown, Paula McCarthy, Andy
Rockwell, Jim Andriotakis (I think they're
Eric Lacroix '90 and GDA Star
Eric Lacroix '90, rookie left
winger on the L.A. Kings hockey team,
and GDA were the stars of a feature
story that appeared in the April 21 pro-
gram for the Kings-Oilers game.
The article quotes Lacroix as
saying it took him about three months to
feel comfortable in GDA 's English-
speaking culture after arriving as a
"skinny," five-foot, six-inch freshman
from Quebec. "I liave to tell you,
though, that my English was pretty good
by the end of my first year. ...Now, look-
ing back, Hie whole experience ivas really
good for me. " Perhaps rooming with
Nick Vachon '90, son of Kings President
Rogie Vachon, helped.
"Governor Dummer Academy
is home to many foreign students who
are interested in academics as well as
athletics..." the program says of GDA.
trying to drop their nicknames...), John
"Toz" Fosdick (hanging in there with the
muppet reference), Ted Duncan, Tom
Johnson and Tom Jansen (otherwise
known as "Duper," to keep things
straight), t Duper has actually made the
big time with his band Evelyn Swoons,
which he savs is a cross between lane's
Addiction and two ladies fighting at the
checkout line. Sounds very interesting,
Tom.... He later fessed up and told me
that its more like a "funk metal jazzy
polka kinda thing, kinda tough to
describe." I guess so.... Anyway, he and
swooning Evelyn will be playing at GDA
in the fall (The Big Time) for a Friday
night program. Anyone interested in
learning more about the band call 617-
BORE-1DJ (huh?) or contact Jelo-Delite
Records, Boston, MA. In his spare time,
Duper is a hotel Jester at the Marriot in
Boston, really. ▼ Other news from atten-
dees: Rob DeLena finished Northeastern
Law School in May and now is an associ-
ate in the Corporate Department of Testa,
Hurwitz and Tibeault. ▼ Paula McCarthy
has moved back to the area, just as we
were meeting, in fact, and works jet-set-
ting around the East Coast helping less
inclined people install their computer sys-
tems. She had just landed from a day in
N.Y.C. when she arrived at the Beerworks,
so she gets major points for making the
effort!! T Diana Stram is now in
46 The Archon - Fall 1995
Naragansett, RI, in graduate school for
oceanography. ▼ Jenn Todd is still spend-
ing other people's money at Medtronic
and has finished her first year of graduate
school (M.B.A.). She and Kobi would like
Karen Kagan to get in touch with them... or
else. T The most exciting news comes
from Amy Goldstein and Kristen LaBrie,
who were doing much more interesting
things on the very night we were all booz-
ing at the Beerworks. Amy got engaged
in New York to someone she's been seeing
for about five years, but for some reason
has withheld his name!! Details, Amy,
details! Congrats to you! (Another one
down...) Kristen was unable to attend the
get-together because she was closing on a
house in Newburyport. Yes, she is a
homeowner. That might be a first for the
class, but I'm not sure. As she reports,
"not married, not engaged," just bought a
house with her boyfriend and lives there
with him and her dog. Way to go,
Kristen! ▼ Other news: Elizabeth Adwin-
Johnson graduated from B.U. School of
Theater Arts with a degree in acting and
has been working in Boston and the
Northwest. ▼ Ann Blair reports from
Berkeley that it's Deadhead mania out there
with the passing of old Jerry. She went to
some Garcia memorials, so witnessed it
all. T Attention everyone, Chris
McMorris is finally married! It happened
September 30, 1995. He married Marianne
Hendrie, who is a nurse. ▼ Jeff Katz has
moved back to Boston and has been com-
peting in the New England Norba
Mountain Bike Championship series.
Though he confessed to not have done so
well, he was a sponsored racer this year,
which is quite an accomplishment. ▼
Peter Barton refereed the National
Fencing Championships in Louisville in
June-eight straight days of refereeing,
uggh.... T "Sreeves" is teaching science
and math in Warsaw, Poland, and will
return next summer to teach in public
schools in central New York. T John (Jeff)
Fort now lives in Park City, UT, and has
just married Kate Batal in August.
Congrats, Jeff. Thanks for writing! ▼
Anita Russo Bartschat writes from North
Carolina that she just finished a trip to the
Grand Canyon, Sedona and Santa Fe,
which was fabulous! ▼ One last final, sad
note. We should take a moment of silence
for the passing of (sniff...) Taco's car. The
Swedish Sled, after years of dutiful ser-
vice, has left us for greener pastures, or
darker highways. Enjoy the new rig,
Taco! T Thanks for all the news, guys! If
you don't see your news in this issue, I
probably got your card after the deadline.
But I'm saving them, so keep sending
them!
Erika J. Sayewich
Secretary
811 President Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 399-8739
Jon Morisseau spent the summer teaching
French and ESL at Cardigan Mountain
School in Canaan, NH. He is currently
teaching English at the Free University of
Brussels, thanks to a Fulbright fellowship.
House guests are welcome in Brussels. ▼
Paul Bucci still works for the Bank of
Boston and sees Ted Smith a lot. He has
been very involved in his community and
is currently a member of the Cranston
School Committee. ▼ Rebecca (Angell)
DeWolfe has been working for U.S.
Senator Jim Jeffords for the last two years
and is living with her husband
Christopher in Vermont. ▼ Matt Perkins
and I had dinner in N.Y.C. a while back.
He's been busy working at Bear Stearns,
structuring and selling bonds collateral-
ized by auto loans and mortgages. In his
free time, he has attempted to live as "chi-
chi" a life as possible, haunting SoBe and
the Hamptons. T Dan Morrison is also in
N.Y.C, after having moved from Boston,
working for a private investment com-
pany. ▼ Elizabeth Leary will have her
first one-artist show held in the Pierce
Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, this fall. She
just returned from six months study in
Florence, Italy, and sends her best wishes
to all. T Christian Dennison has a busy
summer working, playing hockey, volley-
ball and sailing in Annapolis. He's travel-
ing to Australia for four months before
starting school. He'd love to contact other
alums in the D.C. area. ▼ Julie Miller is
beginning her last year of med school at
Emory and is applying for residency in
pediatrics. She's still in Atlanta and is
looking forward to GDA visitors for the
'96 Olympics. ▼ Chris Zabriskie is living
and working in Boston. He's an editor in
the elementary textbooks division of
Houghton Mifflin. The work sounds fasci-
nating; projector transparencies, audio
tapes, CD-ROM discs and web sites now
accompany textbooks, workbooks and
testing materials. ▼ Charity Lombardi is
currently looking for a job while working
in marketing for her father's company.
She attended Carrie Walton's wedding to
Greg Penner in June, along with Kara
Moheban, Jill Packard, Dave Miller, Lisa
Sweeney and Jenny Petscheck. T Carrie is
spending her honeymoon summer in
Montana. ▼ Kara survived her first year
at Suffolk Law and was selected for Law
Review. She saw Jed Mixter at the GDA
Reunion and has been keeping in touch
with Brendon O'Brien in Boston. ▼ Jill
and Dave attended David Adam's wed-
ding on June 15 on Cranberry Island in
Maine and had a great time dancing up a
storm amongst Eric Gillman, Luke
Gilfeather, Tony D'Orazio, Dave Walor,
Wayne Belleau and Mark Juba. Jill and
Dave moved to Derry, NH in June. ▼
Chris D'Orio is still working a lot and
playing tennis in his free time. He and
Jon Kazanjian are living together in
Boston's North End. T Andy Noel has
started on his master's degree in educa-
tion at B.U. in their summer program.
Andy spends his academic year working
in admissions, teaching and coaching at
Cardigan Mountain. T Todd O'Brien
enjoyed his last summer off before begin-
ning med school at UMass. T Wayne
Belleau works for Navionics in Woods
Hole, MA, as a cartographer, making elec-
tronics navigation charts. ▼ Kristina von
Trapp spent some of her October scuba
diving on the Great Barrier Reef. She's
been spending winters in Stowe and sum-
mers in Australia. ▼ Cindy Draper mar-
ried John Hatfield on September 16 in
Canton, MA. ▼ Meg Murphy is working
for a furniture /interior designer when
she's not hanging out with her beau
Alfonso and her 10-month-old pug,
Emma. She and Heidi Danielson got
together in New Hampshire this past
July. ▼ Heidi is gearing up for grad
school in the fall. T As for things in
N.Y.C, they're going well. I've transferred
from U.V.A. Law to N.Y.U. Law and will
be married to Samuel Buell in August of
1996. It's so great to hear from all of you!
'89
Kristin A. Brown
Secretary
One Elm Street
Byfield, MA 01922
(508) 462-0752
Thanks to everyone who sent me notes! It
was wonderful to hear from people I
haven't talked to or heard from since
graduation! Here's what I heard: ▼
Alison Schermerhorn has had a busy past
few months. She graduated from U.N.H.
in May, went to Cancun with her
boyfriend Greg, began working full-time
at First NH Bank, moved in with Greg and
bought a new '95 Saturn! Whew! She
now hopes to take some time to relax. She
hopes everything is going well with every-
one! ▼ Jeff Fullerton, whom I saw at his
brother Brett's graduation from GDA in
June, recently accepted a new job working
at a small company in West Virginia as a
design engineer, working on the latest
model of automobile crash test dummies.
He says Martinsburg, WV, is a nice area,
about an hour and a half from D.C. He
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Class Notes
Come to a
Phonathon!
Join classmates and
schoolmates at the GDA fall
phonathon for Reunion classes
(ending in 6s and Is)...
Date: Tuesday, November 28
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Place: Merrill Lynch,
Wellesley Hills
Also, watch for upcoming
phonathons in Boston and at
GDA, currently scheduled for
February 26, 27 and 28 and
March 4, 5 and 6.
For further information on
GDA phonathons, please call
Betsy Winder, Director of
Annual Giving, at Governor
Dummer Academy
(508) 465-1763.
says anyone in the area should give him a
call. His new address and number is:
333-0 Pendleton Drive Martinsburg, WV
25401,(304)264-4356. ▼ Cheryl Cutler
(who we know as Cheryl Tucker) is mar-
ried (obviously). She works at Fleet Bank
on Cape Cod. She has been "hiding out"
there for about two years. She has heard
from Fati Entekhabi (speaking of
her.. .where are you, Fati? What are you
doing now? Get in touch. We would all
love to hear what you are up to). Cheryl
would like to know what happened to
Jeannette Morss, Schuylar Dawson, Kevin
Brewster and Chante Lampton? ▼
Michael Todd writes that he is working as
an anesthesia technician at Beverly
Hospital (MA), while he works at apply-
ing to medical school, t Joerg Rohans
writes that he "was a member of the
National Team (lacrosse) and attended the
World Cup and European Championships.
My club in Germany (Munich Lacrosse
Club) is going to host the Germany
Championships in September. Need a
goalie: Nate, want to come? (At the same
time as the Oktoberfestival!!) Need a
coach, also. Does anyone know a lax
player in Munich? Make him contact me!!
Phone #: 08170/92001" T Adam Barton
wrote to update us on what is happening
with him. He says, "I'm one of those peo-
ple who has been negligent about keeping
in touch; I hardly know where to start. I
graduated from Penn and then spent a
year traveling through Bangladesh and
South Asia, taught English at an orphan-
age and volunteered at medical clinics.
The day I got back in the U.S., I got
engaged and was married last December.
(Congrats!) My wife Amanda and I now
live in New York City, and I will be start-
ing a Masters in International
Development in a couple weeks at
Columbia. I was out of the country for the
Reunion and am pretty out of touch with
most everyone." Well, you are no longer
out of touch with us. Thanks for updating
us. It sounds like you have been very
busy. Good luck with school! T Also in
New York City is Tom Plante. He has been
there for the past year and is looking for-
ward to his one-year anniversary as a
financial analyst at Value Line in
September. He talks to Josh Solomon
almost weekly, who has moved to San
Diego with his girlfriend. Both of their
golf games are improving, and Tom says
he is looking forward to moving back to
the Boston area in a few years. He says to
look him up if anyone is in the N.Y.C.
area. ▼ A real blast from the past came
from N.Y.C. when I heard from Dave
Fleming! He says, "I thought it would be
fun to go into the out-of-work-actor busi-
ness. Have moved to N.Y.C. to wear lots
of black, pierce something and wait tables.
I'm in the book under Presley, Elvis
Aaron." Great to hear from you, Dave! ▼
Carrie O'Keefe is living on Beacon Hill
with Allison Hyder and working at Paine
Webber. ▼ Alison Magee is moving back
to Boston and will be working at an adver-
tising agency. ▼ Ted Sweeney wrote,
which was great, as he was definitely one
of the long lost souls. He has been out of
touch with GDA for quite a while, but
here's what he is up to: He took time off
from Bradford College for the past 18
months to work in a court ordered treat-
ment facility for second-offending drunk
drivers (hopefully you will not see any of
our classmates there, Ted!). He is now
heading back to college with a new
major-pre-med. He hopes to get into med-
ical school in the next two years. ▼
Mariah Lilly writes, "Hello, GDA! Sorry
that I haven't been in touch for so long. I
have recently graduated from UMass
Amherst with my B.FA. in dance.
Fortunately, I also found a job right away.
Northfield Mt. Hermon School will be
home to me in the very near future. As
you have also heard, I am engaged and
will be married next June! Say hello to
everyone." t Haivley Appleton also
writes, " I just signed a lease for a studio
in Harvard Square and I am having inte-
rior decorating fantasies! I am dividing
my time working on Newbury Street. I
am part-time at CP Shades and part-time
at my parents' new store, Appletons'. It is
very convenient because both are on the
same block! Basically, I'm just trying to
see what 'I'm going to do for a career."
Maybe interior decorating is your thing,
Hawley? ▼ Jessica Cowles recently
moved to a new place and is loving it.
She is still working for Animated Images,
making CAD software for the fashion
industry. She is making plans to leave
Maine within the next year, but doesn't
know where to. She saw Grace Jeanes'92
in Camden. "Miss everyone,"she says. T
Victoria Hill married Hugh C. Resnick on
August 20, 1994. She will be attending
graduate school at Indiana University in
the fall, studying early American
history ▼ I heard from Rob Tartarian.
Rob, I think the last time I saw you was
when you left a party at Pat Riley's years
ago! He says, "I am currently living in
Fox, AK. I have gotten into dog mushing
and have my own small team of 10. I will
be working to get my architectural and
civil drafting certificate this winter. Rock
climbing, hiking and mountaineering to
stay in shape. Planning on doing a NOLS
course next summer. Don't think anybody
would recognize me if they saw me." t
Dan Nadeau has found a new apartment
in Charlestown, MA, which is great, and
he is having a great time indulging in the
life of Boston. He is still enjoying working
at The Boston Company. He often sees
many GDA alums around town and
enjoys catching up on what now seems
like "old times." If you're in the Boston
area, give him a call: (617) 242-8835. T
Rob Ashworth has been working for his
dad in Boston all summer, and it's going
well. He says he doesn't make much
money, but considering his dad will be
paying for grad school, he is in no position
to ask for a raise. His summer has been
going well, he writes: "My girlfriend
came up for a week over the 4th of July,
and just recently visited for a few days
while she was interviewing for some jobs.
She is moving up for good by Labor Day,
and possibly sooner if she is hired. We're
going to live in Andover until October
(while my parents are still in Maine), and
then hopefully we'll find a place that will
48 The Archon - Fall 1995
take my dog." He says he saw Matt
Doivning and Derek VanVliet and "those
guys"at a huge party in Andover, and ear-
lier in the summer he went to a Red Sox
game with them. T Speaking of the Red
Sox. ..at the time of this letter, the BoSox
are kicking butt! I hope by the time this
issue gets to all of you, we will still be as
proud of them. Hopefully, if they make it
to the World Series, they will have better
luck than they did when we were sopho-
mores at GDA. I can vividly remember
sitting in the French Building with some of
you watching that series and just cringing
as we came so close and lost it. Anyway,
keep in touch. I am looking forward to
the kids arriving back on campus. GDA is
a different place without students! I will
still be living in Moody next year (luckily
they put on an addition as well as my own
entrance). As a result of the construction
of the new library, however, Moody
moved down the street and is now located
next to the "new dorm." Campus looks
quite different. Come visit! Hope all is
well, and thanks again to those who
wrote.
'90
'91
Class Secretary Needed
Nicole F. LaTour
Secretary
25 Marion Street, #31
Brookline, MA 02146
(617) 566-5099
5th Class Reunion
June 10, 11, 12
With graduations and everything else, it
has been quite a challenge trying to find
out what everyone has been up to, but
luckily I have had some help. T I caught
up with Brian Novelline this summer on
the cape. He's graduated from Dartmouth
and will be heading out to Chicago this
fall with Dave Corbett. ▼ Dave spent his
summer traveling around Europe with
Phil Gatchell and, while in Barcelona, ran
into Alexis Colby, who was traveling with
her "Texan," and now is back in New York
City working at Christie's in the jewelry
and silver department. ▼ Also in the Big
Apple is Matt Murphy, who was visited
by Easton Craft, Stratton Newbert and
Bence Oliver. T Leah Colangelo is living
in Shrewsbury and deciding on future
plans. She tries to talk with Scoff McLeod
as often as possible, but with Scott back-
packing around Southeast Asia it isn't
easy, t Also on the international front,
Toby Levine has left for Costa Rica, where
she will be working and hopefully coming
back to us in the not too distant future. ▼
Megan Price will be working at the Fay
School this fall. ▼ Speaking of teaching,
John Whitesides wrote that he is going
back to U. Maine to get his graduate
degree in exercise physiology and also has
a teaching fellowship there, which will
allow him to be teaching an undergradu-
ate course in the fall as well, t In D.C.,
Karen Queen is working at a law firm.
Leslie McCant is also somewhere on the
hill, and Mia Lindenfelzer has finally
defected from New York City and gone to
D.C. to be a law student at American
University, and is in the same section as
my brother. T Here in Boston, I am trying
to adjust to this post-college life and am
keeping busy in Harvard Square with my
internship at the American Repertory
Theatre. ▼ Chuck Rodman is also around
and just started his first year at New
England Law. T Kori Winter graduated
this spring from B.U. with a degree in
accounting and has wisely decided to put
off reality for a bit and take a year off with
plans to travel and relax. She spent time
this summer with Becky Baker, who was
up from U.N.C. for a while before she
went back to her final year. T Finally, I
have my more wedding announcements.
On October 22, Kori will be Alexandria
Vincents maid of honor. Congratulations,
Alex! Alex graduated from UMass-Lowell
with a degree in accounting and has
started to work for a firm just outside of
Boston. T Scott Miller is engaged to
Heather Vaughan of Fairview, NC. A 1998
wedding is planned. Scott recently gradu-
ated from Elon College. T Well, I know
this is a hectic time for everyone, but in
trying to get things organized, I've real-
ized that most of you have new addresses,
so in order to keep you best informed,
either send them to me or to GDA directly.
Happy fall and please keep in touch.
'92
Joshua C. Lappin
Secretary
300 Pultney Street
Geneva, NY 14456
lappin@hws.edu
It's official. We're old. I can say this now
because a classmate of ours was recently
married and is now happily living with
his wife in Providence. Congratulations
go out to Chris Nielsen and his wife
Timerie, who were married on August
19th near their summer home in
California. Joe Montminy and I had the
pleasure of speaking with Chris just a few
days before the ceremony. Nielly will be
entering his junior year at the Rhode
Island School of Design. Joe and I spent a
good amount of time talking about all the
stuff we had to do this year. It looks like
Joe will be applying to a whole mess of
schools, just as he did his senior year at
GDA. Meanwhile, he is looking forward
to football. ▼ Mike Holbrook is also look-
ing forward to his football season at B.U.
Mike had the opportunity to talk to Joe
Kirch, who is enjoying himself at S.U.N.Y
Stoneybrook while playing basketball. T
Dara Shain has been living in North
Carolina for a year with her brother and
their new dog. Dara had the chance to
spend some time with Cara Lineman, who
recently studied in Bolivia. ▼ At the end
of the summer, Cara flew to Florence to
meet up with Amy Nicolo and Allison
Burnim. Cara also writes that she heard
from Jackie Hogan, who also wrote to me
on e-mail to let me know that she is enjoy-
ing herself in Maryland. ▼ Jed Murdoch
had a good summer working for a land-
scaping company in Vermont. However,
he is looking forward to the hiking, bik-
ing, camping and all that other outdoors
stuff they do in Colorado. Jed had the
opportunity to talk with Tim Ghetto and
Colin Nix, who are all collectively mourn-
ing the death of Jerry Garcia. T Gus
Mergins writes, "I am returning to
Lawrence University as a 22-year-old
junior after a not-so-lucrative year off.
Nevertheless, I am very excited. My sum-
mer has flown by, and not much big
adventure has been had. I miss the East
dearly and hope to see some classmates
soon. The midwestern GDA contingent
has become lonely. Have a nice day." ▼
Petr Vasicko enjoyed his stay in The
Czech Republic this summer and is
returning to Elmira College for his junior
year in college. He sends his regards to all
those who will be graduating this year. T
Patrick Gervais visited GDA this summer
and was disappointed to find no one there
except a meditation group. (All right
then.) However, Pat was happy to visit
with some faculty who went up to
Montreal this summer. T At the begin-
ning of the summer, I was lucky enough
to spend time with Pete Costello and Jon
Kazanjian at a Red Sox game. The Sox
won 5-2, and afterwards the three of us
got to spend some quality time together at
a local social establishment across the
street. I was granted sufficient time to
ponder how nice it was to see the two of
them as I sat outside on the curb by
myself after my evening was unfairly cut
short. But I'm sure everyone will be
happy to know that neither Jon nor Pete
was disturbed by the unfortunate event,
and that they did not find it hard to take
The Archon- Fall 1995 49
Class Notes
their time in finishing their business
inside. ▼ Jon-Patrick Costello is now the
station manager for WERS FM 88.9 at
Emerson College and participated in an
internship at WBCN, working production
activities for the Mark Parenteau show ▼
Jason Pierce is still at the University of
Denver, where he is working on his dou-
ble major in marketing and graphic
design, t AH Derderian has had a busy
summer working with a 14-year-old boy
with cerebral palsy and working at a
halfway house for people with schizo-
phrenia. She will be taking her GEDs in
November, with the intention of going to
grad school to study psychiatry.
Somehow, Ali has made time for painting,
which she still enjoys. ▼ I was very
happy to hear from my old roommate
from sophomore year, David Olshansky.
Dave is doing great at the University of
Miami, where he has a 3.0 GPA and is liv-
ing with his girlfriend in a beautiful
condo, equipped with pool, hot tub and
garage, t Grace Jeanes is in an associate
program with M.B.N.A. America. She is
also working in corporate finance man-
agement in the New England Regional
Headquarters in Camden, ME. Grace
writes that the work is intense, but she'll
have even more work to do when she gets
back to school as captain of the ice hockey
team. ▼ I had the pleasure of spending
quality time with Erin Elwell, Brooke
Whiting, Carolyn Mclnnis, as well as
other fellow alumni from the Class of'93.
Erin is still enjoying herself at Drew,
studying psychology, while Brooke is
looking forward to leading the newly
formed women's varsity ice hockey team
at Amherst; and Carolyn is still recover-
ing from her term in Ireland, which she
enjoyed very much. This summer,
Carolyn interned at Liberty Mutual in
Boston. T Believe it or not, I heard from
Bryant Briggs, who is now pre-med at
B.U. Briggsy spent the summer in
Cambridge. ▼ Chris Ruggiero is in the
process of deciding whether or not to
become a student teacher this year at
Connecticut College. This summer Rugg
coached at Dartmouth College Hockey
Camp with Patti Crowe, Babe Ceglarski
and Devin Sullivan. ▼ Miles Van
Rensselaer was awarded the Wycoff A.
Sword Memorial Prize in Sculpture at
Kenyon College. The award is presented
to the student whose sculpture is judged
best in an annual competition. Miles is
majoring in English and studio art at
Kenyon. T As for myself, it has been a
busy summer. I interned in the marketing
and promotions department of WRKO
Radio this summer, which was interest-
ing. For five days I stayed at the
University of Memphis, where my frater-
nity held the national convention, which
was a great time. Beale Street was a lot of
fun. I spent a lot of time getting ready for
fall term, which should be very busy. I
also worked the night shift at the local
Dunkin Donuts, which had the tendency
to be disgusting. All in all, it wasn't so
bad. When things got hectic, I sat back,
relaxed and had a nice bowl of barometer
soup. Good luck this year!
'93
Saundra E. Watson
Secretary
Lesley College
47 Oxford Street, Box
270
Cambridge, MA 02318
(617) 497-7334
As the fall begins, I hope things have
begun to settle down at school, as we
begin to put the summer out of our
minds. I hope everyone had a productive
one. ▼ Nellie Godfrey worked hard at the
GAP this summer, as I did. Nellie, I
wished I had known. I would have called
you often for customer checks! ▼
Congratulations on your April marriage,
Ingrid! Ingrid Eilertson took last semes-
ter off and got married in April. We all
wish you the best and I'll see you in the
fall. T Shirani Wickramasinghe spent the
month of August in Mexico, living on a
pecan farm. Shirani picked pecans, swam
in waterfalls and traveled all over the
country. She is even receiving credit for
school. Shirani also came up to Boston
for a quick visit before venturing to
Mexico. ▼ Of course, Nicole Simkins has
seen a bunch of'93 graduates: Amy
Chase, Shirani, Betsy Lee, Dana Pascucci,
Matt Casellini, Jason Benedict, Josh Pike,
Lissa Murnane and me. But, I'm sure she
is glad to be back in Florida. ▼ Lissa is
living in her own apartment in Medford,
where she had a little get together in the
beginning of the summer. Jeremy Lyons,
Matt, Josh, Amy, Nicole, Shirani and I
turned up for a mini-reunion. Lissa also
worked and took a class at Tufts. ▼
Kristen Hand spent the summer in new
Jersey, working for a summer arts insti-
tute. She is spending first semester in
New York City, and then second semester
she is off to Western Samoa, Polynesia to
study there. Have a good time in New
York and good luck in Polynesia,
Kristen. ▼ It was a nice surprise to hear
from Shawn Markeyl I was shocked to
hear that he is a biochemistry major and a
French minor (nerd is right), but sure he
will be the greatest French speaking bio-
chemist. I hope your surgery went well
and you will be on the football field again
this fall, ▼ Cara Marcous also had a busy
summer, but I am sure she is glad to be
back at Brown. Cara has spoken to Coral
Keith, who is in Hawaii for the summer,
and she sends her best to everyone. ▼ It
was nice to hear from Mike Nadeau.
Nads says he loves Union, and I know he
is glad to be back. Nads still keeps in
touch with Stash Karandanis and Jon
Jett, and sees Jeff Wotton (our favorite
trainer, besides Kel) every day at work.
Mr. Wotton sends a big hello to the Class
of '93 and Nads tells me that he is expect-
ing a baby in December. I am sure every-
one from the Class of '93 sends a
congratulations to Jeff and Cheryl! T
Alec MacLachlan has changed directions
and is studying psychology at the
University of Hawaii this fall. ▼ Jill
Hindle lived on Lake Winnipesaukee in
New Hampshire while waitressing and
teaching Colin O'Neill how to slalom ski!
Jill has decided to major in environmental
science, with a focus in writing /analysis.
I would like to thank Jill for her praise of
my faithful duties as Class Secretary. ▼
Jody Dan has had a busy summer. She
was a nanny for a family of three children
(all under the age of five!) in Richmond,
VA. She is going to miss seeing Nicole
LaTour' 91 at school this year and is anx-
ious to find out what Laura Renna is up
to. Jody sends a "hello"to Katie Renna
'96, whom she saw on Fisher's Island. ▼ I
am glad to be back in the routine of
school, but I am as busy as ever. I hope to
hear from more of you guys next time.
'94
Kristen L. Marvin
Secretary
2424 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, #618
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 861-2931
Well, unfortunately the summer has come
to an end, but from what it seems, people
are anxious to go back to school. I have
spent my summer here so I don't have a
long way to travel, but for some there is a
long trip ahead. ▼ Kasey McGarrigle is
excited to get back to Colorado. She is
taking a few days to drive out there and is
looking forward to getting back on cam-
pus. She had had a great summer, spend-
ing time with friends and working. She
50 The Archon- Fall 1995
has seen a lot of Lisa Masinter, who spent
her summer working in New England.
Kasey has also made trips to Maine to see
Kate Savage and to Cape Cod to see
Nikki Maheu. ▼ Nikki is keeping busy
working at a clothing store and relaxing
with friends and family. T Both Erin
Canavin and Karen Silver made trips to
the Cape to see Nikki. Erin has been
working and is looking forward to mov-
ing into her apartment in Boston. She
starts school at Northeastern this semes-
ter. Karen leaves the 18th of August to
head back to St. Louis. She has been
working with Erin this summer and is
excited to start school again. She wants to
wish everyone a great sophomore year. ▼
I received a letter from Jeremy Rimer,
who says he is having the time of his life
in Florida. He is at the University of
Florida and lives in a house on campus.
He enjoyed his summer as he visited the
Bahamas and is now trying to put
together a second band. ▼ Cathy Perry
just finished an E.M.T. course, which she
says was challenging. Perry loved her
first year at Georgetown and is looking
forward to returning to D.C. She did
have a relaxing summer and said it was
great seeing everyone again. ▼ Jayson
Coughlin is planning on majoring in pub-
lic justice at Oswego State in Oswego, NY.
He had a great first year playing hockey
for the Great Lakers and is living this year
in a house three minutes from campus
with three other guys on the hockey
team. ▼ Tim O'Keefe spent his summer
reading electric meters for P.S.N. H., relax-
ing and spending time with friends. Tim
has seen a lot of Jenn Mulloy and Kurt
Danielson. The three of them went back-
packing in the White Mountains for three
days. He also had the chance to see
Karen Hesselbach and Jackie Bean '95.
Tim says that he's had a great summer
but is looking forward to returning to
Davidson. ▼ Karen Hesselbach has had a
great summer, relaxing in the sun, life-
guarding at Water Country. She is look-
ing forward to seeing friends at
Gettysburg but is not ready to start
classes. She said that it has been fun see-
ing people from home and being with her
family. T Lisa Maffei had a great first
year at William Smith and is looking for-
ward to returning this fall. Lisa has had a
relaxing summer in West Newbury seeing
everyone. T Michelle Dumas spent her
summer working for a software company
that she had worked for last summer. She
has seen John Markos, Mandy Hirsch,
Dave Costa and Tim Gould '95 and is
happy to return to Gettysburg this fall
with some new GDA faces. ▼ Alfonso
Garcia will be attending Wake Forest this
fall, and wants anyone who is in the area
to look him up. T To everyone who
responded, thank you for your efforts.
For those of you who didn't, hope to hear
from you before the next Archon. Good
luck to everyone in the Class of 1994.
'95
Laura B. Barnes
Secretary
Trinity College
Main Hall, #416
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 328-4299
The Class of 1995 has been plenty busy
this past summer, working and preparing
for college. I have been busy working on
the 1995 Milestone, which was completed
in August, and at FTP Software, a com-
puter software company, with Michelle
Dumas '94. If you were in the
Newburyport area at all this summer, you
may have bumped into several people
from GDA. ▼ Kesenija Topic and Adam
Tagliamonte were E.S.L. counselors for a
month with Japanese students on cam-
pus. T You could find Lindsey Swallow
working at either the Captain's Quarters
restaurant or Native Sun clothing bou-
tique. T Maire Herron worked at
Tendercrop Farm in Newbury after she
spent two weeks on an Outward Bound
canoe trip. ▼ Matt Dow worked at a
restaurant in Salisbury once his knee
healed from the surgery he had after
graduation. ▼ Ironically, Casey
Deschamps also had knee surgery and
worked in a restaurant this summer. T
Casey Barbaro was busy scooping ice
cream at Hodgie's Too in Salisbury, as
well as working for her dad. ▼ Deb
Barry helped out her dad too this sum-
mer by working for him at a mug
factory. ▼ Also giving her dad a helping
hand in the office while learning the fam-
ily business is Savina Sasserath. Savina
found time to travel with her family to
Italy for the month of July, where I am
told she got very tanned. ▼ Arnaud
Lessard also managed to get a great tan
running a beach parking lot on Plum
Island. He even saw Chris Browne, who
happened to be on the Island visiting
family before leaving for a trip to Europe.
Arnaud found the time to make a trip to
New Jersey to visit Chris Keybida, who is
taking college courses, helping his dad on
their farm, as well as working for another
farm. The two caught up with Orlando
Velazco, who is working at a bank in
N.Y.C. and literally handles millions of
dollars a day. ▼ Ed Guzman had his
hands full with campers at a camp out in
California, where he worked with Kate
McCullough '96. Edward and Kate got a
surprise visit from Dottie Bragdon, who
was at a summer camp of her own. They
went out to dinner and talked about
GDA. Now he does not know what to do
with his time, since Stanford does not
start until late September. T Brendt
D'Orio and Brian Harriman also had
their hands full with hockey campers at
the Brooks School Hockey Camp. Dio
and Tim Gould attended the Patriots first
pre-season game and are hoping for a big
season for the Pats. ▼ Gouldie and Chris
Dubois had an active summer painting
houses for College Pro Painters, and their
manager was Dave Costa '94. ▼ Martha
Fournier said she's had an unbelievable
summer. She first attended clown school
in Virginia, then found herself to be one
of the chosen few to study mime from
master mime Marcel Marceau in Ohio.
She's excited about attending U.N.H. and
is living in the international dormitory on
campus. T Martha is not the only one
with an interesting living situation. I
heard through the grapevine that Merritt
Noel, Preston Picardi and Chris Dubois
are roommates at U.V.M. ▼ I've learned
that Caroline Scully was accepted off the
waiting list to Boston College and is
attending classes there instead of Saint
Michael's College. Congratulations,
Caroline! ▼ Laurie Carrier traveled to
Ireland, while Sung An and Raymond
Pribadi visited one of my favorite places
in the world this summer, Australia's
Gold Coast. ▼ Miranda Trussell has been
working and hanging out with friends all
summer. She saw Ashley, Deb and Amy
B. at a gas station on her way to see
Hootie and the Blowfish at Great Woods.
She starts classes at Wheaton College on
September 2. Miranda misses everyone
and wishes them good luck. Her e-mail
address is mirtrus@aol.com. ▼ Michelle
Ristuccia just got back from spending a
month doing community service in Costa
Rica. She has one year left in high school
and is then hoping to attend Bowdoin
College. She wishes everyone in the Class
of'95 good luck. ▼ Chris Browne gradu-
ated from Greenwich High School in
1995. He spent the summer windsurfing
in the south of Spain and will be attend-
ing St. Michael's College in Vermont this
spring.
The Archon -Fall 1995 51
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Dottie and Put Flint '37, GP'99
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I i et's get things in proper order.
"One strives to earn enough to do
the right thing, first for one's spouse, then
for one's children, then for one's grandchil-
dren. Having taken care of food, shelter
and clothing, education remains.
"I owe a great debt to Governor
Dumrner Academy for the influence and
preparation I received during my four years
there. I have tried through annual and capi-
tal donations to make at least a partial pay-
back. The easiest method was through a
charitable gift annuity: Dottie and I receive
the income, at a 6.6 percent return during
our lifetimes, and GDA will later receive the
principal. I have disposed of two highly
appreciated stocks, received a good tax
break and can use the income towards my
granddaughter Sarah's tuition at GDA.
"Dottie and I are very happy with
the annuity, and we urge others in the GDA
community to join us in this highly fulfill-
ing — and simple — means of supporting the
Academy."
If you would like more information on
charitable gift annuities, gifts of appreciated
property or bequests, please contact Karen E.
jinley, Director of Development, at
Governor Dumrner Academy (508-465-1763).
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